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hey how's it going Dave 2d here and this is a xiaomi Air 12 now this is a device that a lot of people have been asking me to do a review for I never did it when it first launched because it's a product that it's difficult to purchase if you're in North America and there's some inherent risks that come with purchasing a device from a smaller company like Xiaomi but the thing that makes this thing special is that it's kind of like the ripoff version the knockoff version of the MacBook 12-inch it's often compared to this because of its shape its size and its components so I thought it would kind of do a video to showcase the two so that you guys can have a realistic comparison between the two one of the more important things about this device is the build quality this is a very high quality device it's built really well compared to a lot of ultrabooks at this price point so this thing actually starts at around 500 maybe $550 depending on where you purchase it from this one in particular is from gearbest and it cost around five hundred thirty dollars now the design language is quite similar to the macbook not that they're identical but you can see that it's obviously been inspired by apple's design simple flat slabs and this one actually has no branding or marking on the top of it it's actually difficult to tell which company this product came from just by looking at it now in terms of its thickness it's some thicker and heavier but it's very comfortable to hold still the device is well made for the price it's not super solid a twin side as well built as a macbook and it wouldn't say it's as durable of the maxwell contenders like when you press on aren't how much reflects there is but it's surprisingly well made and I would say it's better made than almost any other ultrabook at this price point the keyboard has some flex to it not a lot it's mean it's not as rigid as a MacBook I'm going to demonstrate on the MacBook it's a little more rigid but it's not a huge difference the display that they're using as a 10 DP panel it's not as high-resolution as a Macbook panel it's also not as bright nor is color accurate but it's a really nice screen nonetheless it's also not a touchscreen despite it being a glossy finish as well the keyboard on the xiaomin is actually pretty good I would say it's easier to get used to than the MacBook keyboard I like how everything to feel like a regular keyboard in this there's no super thin and butterfly switches or anything it's very comfortable to type on the one thing I don't like is the track price I bet it's a bad trackpad but I definitely prefer the MacBook trackpad this uses a synaptic driver so it's not ideal but it's not bad ok let's talk about ports so show me with smart they realize that not everyone likes that whole single port thing on the MacBook these guys have a single HDMI port an audio jack and then on the other side we have the USB a can to use PC performance on this machine is pretty good I mean on paper doesn't look amazing at the sky like m3 but we compared it for just actual use regular use day-to-day stuff it performs really well it's not as fast as an i5 or 97 but unless you're doing more CPU intensive stuff you probably won't notice a difference one thing to note the MacBook from 2016 is actually running the same processor but the clock speed is a little bit higher so this particular chip you can kind of ramp up the speed if you throw enough wattage at it and that's what Apple has done they're running the stock speeds of 0.9 gigahertz but when I use them they feel really similar if you want to play games on the Xiaomi you can play some really light titles but anything even mildly intense just won't run very well in a system the speakers on the Xiaomi are actually not bad they're better than most Ultrabook speakers at this size but they're still not as good as the MacBook speakers and I'll give you a little quick speaker test so obviously MacBook has better speakers but this thing's a lot cheaper yeah okay we're going to take a look at the inside pretty easy to get in there it's some Torx screws on the inside you can see the single status SiC that they include the weird thing is that they have 2 m2 slots there's only one of them that supports SATA and then the other one supports PCIe you have to use specifically those interfaces for those two sticks the battery is pretty big it's actually 37 watt hours the MacBook has a 41 watt hour battery and you're going to get slightly better battery life on that thing you're getting around 9 hours of MacBook around 7 hours of this even though this has only a slightly smaller battery the RAM is unfortunately soldered on it four gigs and you're stuck with four gigs regardless of the configuration and lastly you'll notice that there's no fans it's a completely silent system with the ultra low voltage CPU but everything in here looks nicely packed together there's no wasted space in here or anything several output is comfortable I mean it is an ultra low voltage ship so nothing gets super hot or anything if you're curious about the webcam it looks better than the macbook webcam to 720p the MacBook has a 480p cam the ultimate question is whether or not the xiaomi r12 is worth the price because as you could see in this review the MacBook is better across the board except for a few things so like the keyboard on a xiaomi is better arguably the port selection is better on the xiaomi and well the webcam is better on the xiaomi but aside from that the MacBook is better all around the board other than the fact that runs OS X that's the preference thing so is it worth it I think it is it's really difficult to compare something like this when the price is so different but if you're looking to purchase something like a thin and light ultra book I've always felt that that MacBook was just too expensive for what it offered this thing gives surprisingly good value at this price the only thing and really the only thing that holds me back from just being like hey everyone just go buy this thing is the fact that has to come from China or somewhere in Asia and if there are problems with this laptop you're going to have a tough time getting it fixed that's theme of this video hope you guys enjoyed it thumbs be liked it subdue you loved it see you guys next time