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I've been using Xiaomi Mi Notebook Pro [1] for a little over a year now and there is not a single visible sign of wear. People have had various problems with this laptop, but mine is still in a great condition. I'm running Arch Linux and so far everything has worked without hiccups.

Build quality, in general, is very good. Some positive highlights:

- It has an aluminum body and feels very sturdy.

- Lid can be opened with one hand and even after one year it feels like when I first got it.

- Keyboard feels very nice: there's a great amount of travel and keys have a great clicky feedback.

- Touchpad is superb, very smooth and responsive. It's definitely better than that of XPS, but obviously not as good as Mac's.

Some negative aspects:

- Some keys started to squeak rather quickly.

- One of the speakers rattles at higher volumes.

- Screen of my unit had several dead pixels on arrival. Fortunately they are only seen in pitch-black darkness on a black background when the screen is at near max brightness. Not once have I noticed them during daily usage.

- Keyboard stays lit for a fixed time.

- Soldered RAM.

- Fans seem to not be of very high quality.

- Slow SD card reader.

Specs: Quad Core i7-8550U, 16GB RAM, NVIDIA GeForce MX150 GPU, 256GB NVMe SSD.

Overall I find it an excellent laptop with great specs. I got it for 920 EUR and it's impossible to find such laptop for such an incredible price where I live in Europe.

[1]: https://www.gearbest.com/2in1-laptops/pp_009171639711.html?w...