The only problem with buying a chinese laptop is that I would be afraid any non-trivial propriety code I write for a company would be stolen by the chinese to make their own product. I am not saying Dell is any better, they have an extremely close relationship with the US intelligence agencies but atleast I know they won't steal my code for competitive advantage.

It looks like great hardware neither the less and with apple being so arrogant these days with its keyboard and its warfare against the repair community it looks like an enticing option.