Terrible use of fractions

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.

Id get the Chuwi Hi3 as a cheaper alternative at £277 and it has a 13.5" 3000x2000 screen same as used in the ms surface book. http://www.gearbest.com/tablet-pcs/pp_557447.html

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.

Id get the Chuwi Hi3 as a cheaper alternative at £277 and it has a 13.5" 3000x2000 screen same as used in the ms surface book. http://www.gearbest.com/tablet-pcs/pp_557447.html

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.

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.

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?

Haha you've hit the nail on its head. Once you add vat then the price isn't competitive anymore

showing as £570?

You need to convert to us dollar and pay via fx free card

I was posting it here.. http://www.hotukdeals.com/deals/tablet-3k-win10-4gb-64gb-281-gearbest-2628177

Is it easy changing it to English without buying a new copy of win10?

I'd much rather get a Xiaomi ultrabook than a Chuwi tablet and keyboard. I love my Chuwi but it's a bit of a compromise, and Xiaomi's products are in a different league.

With a revolut card right now its roughly £380.00

Probably a personal thing but I wouldn't pay this much money for a laptop without a UK keyboard.

+1

I don't think that's the issue, you can get the money back from credit card. The issue is if you have a problem with it in 3 months time.

absolutely, if there's a fault you have to send it back to China, which will be expensive.

You've got to be insane spending more than £15 at GearBest. 8/10 the item never shows up, is dead on arrival or breaks within a few months and you have a costly postage bill and very poor customer service!

Very nice machines these if you're looking for a budget ultraportable that's light and has zero noise.

https://techtablets.com/xiaomi-mi-notebook-air-12-5/

https://techtablets.com/2016/12/xiaomi-mi-notebook-air-12-re-review-4-months/

Only thing that's stopped me from pulling the trigger on these is the lack of UK support / repair capability if it were to develop a fault and the slightly high price (typically £450-£550). That said, I've owned lots of UK sold laptops from the other manufacturers such as Dell, Acer, Lenovo, Asus, HP etc and with the exception of a Medion laptop, none of them developed any faults that couldn't be fixed with a component swap (eg. failed HDD on an HP laptop) despite years of usage.

Can't see this for £399 at Gearbest but it is £444 from Bang Good: http://www.banggood.com/Xiaomi-Laptop-Intel-Core-i7-8G-DDR3-NVIDIA-GeForce-GTX-760M-15_6-Inch-p-941729.html?p=QZ14021624945201505Y

Also a guide here for converting the Windows Chinese version to the English version (it's a bit of a faff, so get a native English version of the OS if you can):
http://en.miui.com/thread-338431-1-1.html

If things don't turn up you should get your money back, I believe aliexpress don't release the money to the seller until you have received it. Pay with a credit card as they are jointly liable.

It's still available - just need to try a different link http://www.gearbest.com/laptops/pp_416105.html?wid=4

Thank you. I was hoping / expecting that this would be able to be done. I think I'll go for the 13.3" version tonight - about £538 if paying in euros

I have this machine. Picked it up at the xiaomo store in Beijing. Very well made, fast, light and good battery life. My only gripe is that it only has one USB port.

£400 on an item with basically no warranty :confused:

Yes there's definitely a manufacturer called Chewi their tagline is "We're back!"

What about a VAT/Custom Tax when ordering from China especially Gearbest? Any experience?

warranty here is a joke
you have to submit a ticket and then after 2 weeks they reply and expect you the ship the item to china out of your cost for repair

would never give £400 to them

This is simply one of those laptop deals which will appeal to some but not others.

On the the plus side, you will simply never find an ultraportable like this for anything close to £400 in the UK. In that respect, it's a superb deal.

On the downside, there's the Windows OS hassle, risk of additional customs duties, and the logistics of support/repair if the machine develops a fault. Having owned several Xiaomi phones, I have to say that their build quality is very impressive. They're a premium Chinese manufacturer and don't produce rebranded generic junk, so I'd be surprised if a fault were to develop within the typical lifecycle of a laptop like this. I suspect the 2nd generation of this laptop (if there is to be a 2nd generation) will be even better.

If I was after an ultraportable in this form factor and had a spare Windows key, I'd seriously tempted by this deal. This deal one for the tech savvy who don't mind taking a risk.

I'd still give deal a HOT.

Chuwi, not Chewi.

No band 20 am out
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Have got the 13.3 Here (using it now) do like it a lot, however the battery life isn't as great as the adverts or reviews for it suggest, but still good given it's size, and to be fair it might be my day to day usage and wi-fi etc is just that bit heavier than most? Gearbest were fine with the order, but it took 2 weeks to get here.

Win10 English installed fine using the Chiense Key that came with the laptop.
Annoying the " and @ keys are in the US layout so now they are 'wrong' but you just have to touch type to get them.
Would like to be able to later the brightness of the keyboard backlight
Doesn't have a software numpad, if that makes sense, so still working out a few keyboard shortcuts, things that would normally be ALT+NUMPAD 1234 for example...

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.

And a type C, and an HDMI. Thats about a 1000% better than a Macbook. At least you can charge it and use a usb without having to buy an expansion port.. Lovely bit of kit but they need to provide some kind of UK warranty.
If anyone wants a half decent tablet and keyboard for £137(nice 3:2 aspect), http://www.gearbest.com/tablet-pcs/pp_605518.html

Well full charge, doing my office work with wifi on, screen at 60% (it is a bright screen so happy to not having to have it at 100% like previous cheap laptops) Outlook open, 12 Chrome tabs, few spreadsheets, saying 5 hours left. Kind of wanted the promised 7-8 for all day no charge usage, but the battery does charge very quickly via the USBC charger.

Hard to tell what is really going on though! Think some Win10 updates have finished and now says 6:13 left on battery :smiley:

I love how Xiaomi show that Apple products are overpriced junk in some cases. I love how they're directly challenging Apple in China better than any company here in the 'West'

£595

Great brand XIAOMI!!

no import tax ??

If you use PayPal this is not true, so you're now having to trust PayPal.

Couldn't you simply change the keyboard layout / region to UK and then get some keyboard stickers off Ebay or Amazon?

£479.26 now.

About the keys - do most laptop keys not 'pop' off somehow? Can you not just swap the keys over? Would not really want stickers on a nice new shiny laptop