build them. The new Aluminum frame macbooks were designed in China. On the hardware side of things, Chinese are being more inventive every day. Yes they jump started their country from an agrarian society to an industrial age society by acquiring (both legally and illegally) western technology, but once they figured out how it worked, they have gone on to innovate vast improvements. Now that they have the experience, they are rapidly racing ahead of the US and Europe in many areas. So far, software is one area where China still lags the west, but it is catching up fast using the same proven method of reverse engineering western technology and then improving on it so it fits into China's future very well. China is helped a great deal in this area by the Open Source community which has given China entre into the most advanced western software technology available. So any person in the west that thinks Chinese engineers are not equal to western engineers is just being delusional. China has the intellectual capacity to sink the west in a few years, especially since the US has basically destroyed their education system and US companies refuse to hire US engineers. Since there are no US engineering jobs, few US college students take engineering classes. The few people taking US engineering classes are from ... wait for it ...China! Yes, I really am from the US and have been in the high-tech industry for over 20 years. For the last