They are a business, not a church or an ethics committee. If you want them to bring production here you have to make it beneficial to them. You have to create an environment that harbors jobs and business growth.

Not to mention its not necessarily a bad thing. Plenty of Chinese people need jobs and work. In some places 2$ an hour is considered great pay.

Furthermore, most people with degrees and skills wont work in a factory for 10$/Hr. Some make more than that on unemployment.

It wouldn't be short term and theres not enough Americans to handle the production Apple has.

Then order from the refurb store.

My Advice, Get it on Ebay NOAAAW. http://9to5mac.com/2012/10/20/photo-of-tweaked-full-sized-ipad-shell-with-new-smaller-lightning-port/

OP; Dont listen to these people. They don't even understand entrapment. All it would take is a documented case of this guy showing doubt and the FBI encouraging him for it to be considered entrapment.

I understand that. But the point is, it is like OSX and iOS. Because WinRT is ARM and Win 8 is x86. So yes, while apps written correctly according to the Microsoft Guidelines will seamlessly port over with a simple compiler change. Not every single app will. The only difference between iOS/OSX and WinRT/Win8 is that…

Yes, but it's also neutered in other areas. It may have the desktop but it's still locked down. http://www.techradar.com/news/software/operating-systems/windows-8-vs-windows-rt-whats-the-difference-1086980

VS2012 is not a legacy application. Windows is not moving entirely over to ARM. VS2012 is new for Windows 8. I honestly can't see VS2014 running on WinRT/ARM. But I guess time will tell.

Ok, looked it up and it was changed, Touche. But then theres still that pesky requirement of ARM Enables apps. Which means theres still few apps for the Windows RT Desktop.

Then get an Android.

And a MUCH MUCH bigger App market.

No, It is Windows RT. Not Windows 8. Windows RT is limited to Metro only apps, and even some of those are limited based on other criteria. Its not like on this 500$ tablet you can load up VS 2012 and do some work. You can't.

iPad is definitely used for work in many places. The difference is there are many apps for the iPad and few for Windows RT/Metro. While I can certainly see the app's being released for Windows RT blowing up.. I still think it's a far cry from being productive.

You'll be limited to Metro. This isn't Windows 8.

Oh wait, I'm sorry. People don't love increased battery life along side increased speed? Better Chips are very important to how all Apple products operate.

I'm actually switching from a macbook pro to a new laptop and a server. I'm moving my Macbook Pro 2008 to the position of a server while I get fix an Envy 14 Beats edition i've been sitting on for months. I'm gaining a better GPU, Resolution and more. While still being able to SSH into my Macbook Pro server and…

A liberal answer I agree with.. The guy was seeing a mental health professional but was still able to get all that weaponry? He could get it anyway's and even if he didn't there are worse weapons he could have made. But the point is that mental health is an issue in this country and should be addressed, as is the…

Good, some third party docks can come into play on the cheap.