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There is a pattern to Xiaomi’s launches in India. They usually enter a new category by vastly undercutting the status quo and making a huge social media blitz about it. This starts a virtuous cycle of Xiaomi disrupting the category and changing the status quo of the category in India. It did it with smartphones, TVs, Air Purifiers, and a ton of accessories. It hasn’t had a 100 percent success rate, but mostly it has hit the mark. That said, now it is attempting to do the same with laptops; a highly commoditized category. While most assumed Xiaomi to make a big splash and disrupt the notebook market, just the way it disrupted smartphones in India, it’s first device isn’t game-changing. Backed up with some hyperbolic marketing, the Mi NoteBook Horizon Edition is a decent first effort which is arguably overzealous in its ambitions. Fundamentally, largely, this is an excellent device for most people. But there are goof-ups – big ones. It doesn’t have a web camera embedded. Xiaomi want...