Xiaomi Air 12 laptop with a 12.5" screen
The Laptop usually is upwards of £450, and this is the cheapest it has been (if paying in dollars and using a FX free card, $489.99 = roughly £390)
Great specs for the price! Very slim, and has some great reviews
Comes with Chinese Windows 10 can be converted to English but fresh install offEnglish OS the better option.
Original Xiaomi Mi Notebook Air Windows 10 12.5 Inch Intel Core M3-6Y30 Dual Core 4GB RAM 128GB SATA SSD FHD 1920*1080 Bluetooth 4.1 Laptop
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da1em to *Sloman*
19 Apr 175#27
Terrible use of fractions
badboyofrock to *Sloman*
19 Apr 174#28
Are you speaking from experience? If stuff doesn't arrive, why would you continue to buy things? Everything I've ordered from Gearbest has arrived, and nothing has ever taken more than about a fortnight.
In that case, no Apple or Amazon products should be on here either since they pay virtually no UK tax despite having £BILLIONS worth of sales in the UK.
Amazon
Total UK sales in 2014 - £5.1bn
UK corporation tax - £11.9m
Ebay
Total UK sales in 2014 - £1.6bn
UK corporation tax - £617,000
Apple
UK sales in 2014 (estimated) - £7.2bn
UK corporation tax - £11.8m
Those companies are the biggest tax scammers on the planet.
I feel old.... there's a laptop manufacturer called Chewi? And as a comparison to a machine that costs 5x as much? (if not more)
djbenny1 to jiraiya
18 Apr 171#3
Plus over £40 for the keyboard.
djdope to jiraiya
18 Apr 171#4
Different devices, better screen on Chuwi but better processor on the air. The air also looks like a more premium product
djbenny1
18 Apr 17#5
It's also worth noting that the 13.3" version is on offer at £550 I think with considerable upgrades over this - I think this size is a bit small personally.
da1em to djbenny1
18 Apr 17#6
Where did you find that?
I can only see £649 by clicking on the HK store.
Thanks
djdope to djbenny1
18 Apr 17#7
Yep saw that too.. Air 13 looks great. Great specs
da1em
18 Apr 17#8
I take it back - it says £659 on the page listing all the Xiaomi laptops, but then it goes cheaper when you click into it
Yea - I genuinely think that if and when Xiaomi comes to Europe officially, and if they can avoid adding the full rate of tax onto everything, they will absolutely clean up.
da1em
18 Apr 17#11
What's the quickest way of getting a fair fx card please? Do you have to wait for the physical card to arrive or do they provide them straight away for you to make a purchase? Also I think it works out cheaper in euros?
madnlooney to da1em
19 Apr 172#32
Revolut don't charge fees and you can sign up through the app and use virtual card so don't need to wait for real card
joker_ftrs_reborn to da1em
20 Apr 17#50
Hello, Revolut is a good app that I've used for some months. When you setup the app, you get a virtual card that you can use straight away for purchases. You can then order the physical card that matches and you'll receive it around 5 days. The exchange rates are pretty fair (compared with reuters), you get more value than paypal and sometimes than transferwise. It works with a bunch of currencies and you can use it abroad (I've used it in South America for example).
djdope
18 Apr 171#12
Haha you've hit the nail on its head. Once you add vat then the price isn't competitive anymore
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Opening post
Xiaomi Air 12 laptop with a 12.5" screen
The Laptop usually is upwards of £450, and this is the cheapest it has been (if paying in dollars and using a FX free card, $489.99 = roughly £390)
Great specs for the price! Very slim, and has some great reviews
Comes with Chinese Windows 10 can be converted to English but fresh install offEnglish OS the better option.
Original Xiaomi Mi Notebook Air Windows 10 12.5 Inch Intel Core M3-6Y30 Dual Core 4GB RAM 128GB SATA SSD FHD 1920*1080 Bluetooth 4.1 Laptop
Top comments
Amazon
Total UK sales in 2014 - £5.1bn
UK corporation tax - £11.9m
Ebay
Total UK sales in 2014 - £1.6bn
UK corporation tax - £617,000
Apple
UK sales in 2014 (estimated) - £7.2bn
UK corporation tax - £11.8m
Those companies are the biggest tax scammers on the planet.
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I can only see £649 by clicking on the HK store.
Thanks