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Huawei tries to make a laptop: Huawei MateBook X
- Thread starter Tripon
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What do you expect them to run? Linux, Chrome, or MacOS?
DerangedHermit
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Lots of people in my office have their P8 & P9 phones and seem incredibly happy with it.
What A Time To Be Alive
Member
Hackintosh my guy
thechristoph
Sir!
What is wrong with these "it doesn't run macOS" people? It's not an Apple laptop. Its right there in the title. It's made by Huawei.
Bboy AJ
My dog was murdered by a 3.5mm audio port and I will not rest until the standard is dead
Unacceptable solution. Every update will break it. Plus the hardware is worse than Apple hardware.
Introducing the Huawei BuddyBook X
Lasthope106
Member
That's how a lot of famous companies started. Nikon and Canon used to make cheap knockoffs of German cameras and now they are at the top of the camera world.
Lately, a lot of stuff I been buying from China has blown me away in terms of quality. They have the technical know how since they manufacture everything for the western market. Even something as simple as knockoff action figures are indistinguishable for the real thing (See NECA figures on ebay).
Also Apple needs more competition, and if American companies aren't willing to step up their game, then let others do it.
It's a global brand. Perhaps Americans should learn how to pronounce foreign words properly.
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As for the computer, it looks decent enough. We bought one of their phones recently and are pretty happy with it for the price we paid. I think they could make a few more laptop variants, I would like to see them get into other markets.
I Stalk Alone
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Wah Way. how hard is it to say? anyone for a glass of diet racism?
It is like how I have to change my fucking name on a resume just so some fuckers will not throw it out because the name is not white enough.
It is like how I have to change my fucking name on a resume just so some fuckers will not throw it out because the name is not white enough.
Frustrated_me
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Because it's an incredibly useful and easy method of interacting with the OS? Irregardless of being convertible or not.
It doesn't at all feel necessary to me.
I'd agree with you, owning a thinkpad twist, one of the early convertible ultrabooks. I never really used the touch screen outside of using it in a non-laptop forum. However that's just my use case and others may use the touch screen as a laptop all the time.
It's more useful on chromebooks I think. If Google able to get Android apps fully optimized on Intel processors, the chromebook becomes a god-tier multimedia device. I've been playing Realm Defense on my phone and that's a game that would be so nice to play on a 10+ inch. It has cloud saving implemented, which is a great and more future games from the big mobile developers have been adding this feature.
Huawei is the same company that hacked Nortel, one of the great Canadian technology companies and stole all of their secrets. Now they don't exist anymore, 94,500 people lost their jobs and billions in market value (people's pension plans, mutual funds) were wiped out. I would be willing to bet that they were aided by the Communist party.
Every Chinese company is stealing our secrets and technology and not allowing us to compete fairly like we let them do in our markets.
Buying electronics designed and made by Chinese companies is equivalent to treason and I am disgusted by all of you.
One Eyed Willy
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This legit made me lol.. bravo.
blame space
Banned
How else am I supposed to know what's inside
Johnlenham
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Yeah I have a P8 and would argue its the best phone ive owned.
Do you have receipts? I'm genuinely curious. I found this article about Nortel's cyber security and Chinese hackers, but it doesn't say whether Huawei is directly linked to the attacks.
Hello? This is Hailun!
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So according to this thread only Apple is allowed to have an edge to edge keyboard?
Hello? This is Hailun!
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People like you are why the West is rotting from the inside out. You don't even care about the well being of our own people. I'd rather spend my money to keep Canadians employed and producing world class goods than the Chinese.
Veritigo_X
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Oh no not communists!
A Grizzly Bear
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You're going to post that as proof and tell people who buy their products they're committing treason when there's this line in it:
At one point in the article Shields actually invokes the logic of "I have no proof, but they did X. HOW CONVENIENT!"
You are willing to give the Chinese the benefit of the doubt? They are racing to compete and eventually displace us in every field. Remember when the Chinese hacked the US office of personnel? Or stole terabytes of documents relating the F-35 program? They then produced the J-30 which looks like a cheap knock off.
Dreams-Visions
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Looks like a Dell XPS screen/bezel with a MacBook base/keyboard.
What a constructive comment.
aygomyownroad
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Use a Huawei Mate 9 and it is the best phone I have ever used.
Stupid name but I would buy this if I needed a laptop.
Stupid name but I would buy this if I needed a laptop.
Veritigo_X
Member
You just equated buying Huawei products to treason. I don't think you should be throwing any shade.
The Canadian economy is in the toilet, Chinese millionaires are buying up all our real estate to the point where it is completely unaffordable to locals. If you think the Chinese are our friend then you are in for a rude awakening when their actions start to affect you directly.
You do understand that China makes almost every piece of electronics you use?
Westerners still design and do the rest of the work. I understand the realities of globalization. The company that my Dad works for outsourced their manufacturing. They then started shipping directly from the factory to cut costs. Now that the Chinese have their customers lists, they started selling the same stuff out of the back of the factory to the same customers.
I don't get your argument though. Is China not allowed to compete on a global level with their own products?
And you know how that happened? People like me didn't speak out about it or do enough to stop it. You pacifists and defeatists make me sick.
I don't have much interest in Huawei products because I don't particularily trust the Chinese government from slipping spyware in their stuff, but you cannot seriously be blaming Nortel's failure on Huawei. They were a product of gross mismanagement and the bursting of the tech bubble.
I'm not saying they shouldn't be. They should not be allowed when they: 1) copy and steal our technology, then they cut their margins to 0 to force everyone else out of business
2) the communist party does not create an even playing field for our companies to operate, unlike the open door policy in the West.
How is any of this fair? Are you okay with the Chinese taking advantage of us?
Okay Donald.
PdotMichael
Banned
Only idiots are trying to save business fields despite all economic reasoning.
You can't compete in manufactoring with China or other Asian countries and nothing will stop that.
You can't compete in manufactoring with China or other Asian countries and nothing will stop that.
Yeah okay, attack me on the point that a lot of his supporters agreed with and were personally affected by. I'm not a Trump supporter, but I was glad he was speaking up about it while the rest of the corporate elite were profiting at the expense of regular people for decades. Too bad he never followed through on any of his China rhetoric.
Where did I say manufacturing was the problem? I have said the problem is a rival country stealing our technology, collaborating closely with the communist party, and using predatory practices to destroy western businesses.
Are you kidding me. Theres at least 10 different ways to pronounce it from the spelling. Just youtube 'How to pronounce Huawei.'
diet racism because people in the West wouldn't know how to pronounce Huawei? or am I not following your comment? haha that's quite the stretch.