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Good to see linux devices, but selling a proper linux tablet with "polished, mac like" will under deliver, I am sorry. People will buy this with the expectation that it's like an iPad and it won't be.
That's not the fault of the device obv, but how it's marketed.
Also I am not sure I would buy products like this from chinese brands, I know that the mi air notebook was very well speced 3 years ago and had a mac-like beautiful aluminum unibody. But having seen it and used it it was way too expensive for not having a mac like batterylife, cooling solution, display and many more things unfortunately. If they had bought a device for a similar price from any other major brand they would've gotten a better attuned device.
Good luck to them still, of course.