Keepin' it real fake: MacBook Pro knockoff rocks Ion 2, thinks itself fly

We've stumbled across any number of MacBook Air KIRFs, but it's not often we see a worthy representation of Cupertino's heftier model. Never underestimate Shenzhen. This "Dragonfly QT Pro" not only features a familiar aluminum alloy shell, the 14-inch, 1366 x 768 netbook's also got Ion 2 switchable graphics ahead of its Acer and ASUS cousins. A 1.66GHz Atom D410 and 1GB of memory help pump out 1080p video while keeping case temperatures at a lap-happy 36 degrees Celsius, while a 160GB hard drive, 802.11 b/g/n WiFi and HDMI (take that, Mini DisplayPort) round out a 4.2 pound, roughly $3000 RMB (about $440) package. Shame it only gets 2 hours of battery life, eh?

[Mr Oos Posted Apr 29th 2010 10:29PM]

If the Shenzen version of your product has certain features that are more useful than your original (ahem, HDMI), you blew it.

[safe travels Posted Apr 29th 2010 11:02PM]

@Mr Oos if you can't keep the computer running for more than 2 hours on the battery, you also blew it though.

[Mr Oos Posted Apr 29th 2010 11:04PM]

@safe travels

Agreed. And the lid design pretty much kills it anyway.

[kloan Posted Apr 30th 2010 12:20AM]

@Mr Oos

What, you don't think it looks PRETTY?? Like a pretty little butterfly...... fly fly my pretty little butterfly.... right into the garbage can where you belong. *dunk*

[Outsider Posted Apr 30th 2010 2:54AM]

@Mr Oos

I'm in university and I see numerous MacBook and the Pro variants.

The only person I know who uses a MacBook Air (and the only person I've ever SEEN using one in my life at all) is an 80 year old professor who probably can't lift anymore weight than Mr. Burns.

[beefiron Posted Apr 30th 2010 4:03AM]

@kloan
Does it have to be me? Do I really have to be the one? OK, here goes:

It's a dragonfly, not a butterfly.

There.

[Ducman69 Posted Apr 30th 2010 4:57AM]

@Outsider There were actually thousands of Macbook Airs there. You just can't sense them without having clues like counselor Troi losing her empathic abilities and your starship becoming trapped in a swarm of them that are angled in such a way as to render them invisible.

JK, ya the Air kinda sucks, heh!
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=i7hc6qZ_PGI

[Stiksi Posted Apr 30th 2010 7:52AM]

@Ducman69

The video you linked only shows that a computer with SSD boots faster than one with HD. Such a surprise!

[Vellie Posted Apr 30th 2010 11:33AM]

@Outsider Yeah but you are prolly in china anyways. Y'all don't even know real quality products if they smacked y'all in the face. Chinese build stuff that looks like the real thong but after using for a mete few minutes it becomes painfully obvious that it's not authentic

sent from my HiPhone 3G

[Old fogie late bloomer Posted Apr 30th 2010 12:05PM]

I actually really like this, heh. I think the logo is pretty classy, too. What kills it for me is the battery life, but otherwise... yeah.

[albinomexi Posted Apr 29th 2010 10:30PM]

Nawww.
I think my asus eee pc 1005HA is good.

[aseaofflames Posted Apr 30th 2010 1:12PM]

@albinomexi I concur, especially with a windows 7/UNR 10.4 dual boot. :-)

[Jon Presco Posted Apr 29th 2010 10:33PM]

It's pretty cheap; I'm just not completely certain of which definition of cheap it is.

[XGM Posted Apr 29th 2010 10:38PM]

@Jon Presco
Likely both. Then again you get what you pay for.

[Jon Presco Posted Apr 29th 2010 10:51PM]

@XGM Too bad that design on the lid is pretty gaudy too.

[Zslap Posted Apr 29th 2010 10:36PM]

hackintosh anyone?.....neah

[dds1043 Posted Apr 29th 2010 10:38PM]

D410 is a desktop processor! haha no shit it gets 2 hrs. I wonder if its the desktop ion 2 with 16 cores vs just 8.

[dds1043 Posted Apr 29th 2010 10:41PM]

@dds1043
the read link says its running a D510 and 3 hrs of battery life

Just saying.

[iHakr Posted Apr 29th 2010 10:49PM]

Why don't they sell some KIRFs in the states? I would buy one.

[DoctarPeppar Posted Apr 29th 2010 10:51PM]

@iHakr
Heh, cause they would be sued..happens every year at shows like CeBIT, etc...Although I'm no expert on chinese law -- there have got to be some serious loopholes over there regarding patents and intellectual property..either that or the gov just doesn't care.

[mukatuna Posted Apr 30th 2010 1:57AM]

@DoctarPeppar There are copyright and patent laws here in China, but they're very rarely enforced (if ever). KIRFs like the featured 'Macbook', are openly on sale pretty much everywhere in Guangdong Province.

[Kamil R Posted Apr 29th 2010 10:50PM]

So basically, any laptop/computer made with a simplistic design is a mac knockoff?

[KupoCheer Posted Apr 29th 2010 10:54PM]

@Kamil R If you saw the read link pictures, you'd see it's a very blatant ripoff.

[brettlewis Posted Apr 29th 2010 10:55PM]

@Kamil R agreed. However, I do believe that apple invented aluminum... i mean iluminum

[brettlewis Posted Apr 29th 2010 10:59PM]

@KupoCheer my bad. I just saw those. it is pretty much a ripoff. apparently this company only makes replicas too. ha

[Kamil R Posted Apr 29th 2010 11:02PM]

@brettlewis
Yeah, on second thought, its a rip off. Sorry for the mishap.

The keyboard and the track pad.... Jeez.

[markolic Posted Apr 29th 2010 10:55PM]

This looks real nice.

[staticjethro Posted Apr 29th 2010 11:01PM]

This + hackintosh = WIN!

[Tagbert Posted Apr 29th 2010 11:30PM]

@Caprice Dates uncool

[Caprice Dates Posted Apr 29th 2010 11:36PM]

@Tagber

So,

[The Dead Marxist Trio Posted Apr 29th 2010 11:36PM]

Can't believe no one's said this yet...

Is the battery replaceable?

If this thing could have a bigger battery (and I wonder about the trackpad..) it'd be almost totally awesome.

[zullnero Posted Apr 29th 2010 11:49PM]

Yeah, the battery life is surprisingly bad...chalk that up to the graphics card and probably a wimpy battery...and the lid is uninteresting looking. Other than that, these Chinese knockoffs are getting a lot closer to what I want in a netbook/laptop than Apple or Asus have been putting out recently.

[TareG Posted Apr 29th 2010 11:50PM]

The price gives me HOPE that the sexy Asus from earlier today will be sub-$500 too....

[artshark Posted Apr 29th 2010 11:57PM]

"The Internet is for "Atom N450", single-core dual-thread, clocked at 1.66GHz, 2 cache 512KB, supports DDR2-667 memory, the maximum capacity of 2GB, thermal design power of 5.5W. Atom N470 1.83GHz将在下半年跟进。 Atom N470 1.83GHz will follow in the second half."
thats funny, i though the internet was for porn...

[Krispy Posted Apr 30th 2010 1:07AM]

pretty nice kirf not bad at all expect the shitty battery

[SAFIQ Posted Apr 30th 2010 1:18AM]

gotta get 1

-Karedia

[George25 Posted Apr 30th 2010 1:50AM]

Why would you want this? I'd never buy a knock off

[fuesse Posted Apr 30th 2010 2:42AM]

beautiful logo.
so they only need to re-do everything else.

[ColonelKernel Posted Apr 30th 2010 4:02AM]

LOVE the dragonfly logo. I don't give a rat's ass about the computer. It could be a Trapper Keeper for all I care.

[adykhu55 Posted Apr 30th 2010 9:24AM]

@engadget
It isn't proper to list both a $ sign AND "RMB" for prices. Prices generally will only be in one currency. "three thousand dollars rmb" doesn't make sense, because RMB = "ren min bi" = "the people's currency," which in China is yuan, not dollars.

[Stranger2 Posted May 1st 2010 1:14AM]

Since IP seems to have so little weight in China, why hasn't someone released a genuine Mac clone? They don't have to look like a Mac as long as they run OS X as well as a genuine. I know about the OSX86 project but for those people who doesn't wish to mess about with drivers etc it could be pure win.

[92617521 Posted Jul 19th 2010 9:57AM]

One can always buy these and have them shipped for a low price but you can tweak you computer and have a mac lookalike easily guys.