And well...assembled elsewhere? got any place in mind?
Tiawan -- where factory workers aren't:
1. exploited (long work hours, sub-standard pay with a currency purposefully suppressed by the Gov't in order to corner the globalist labor market)
2. in fear of being shipped off to some Gulag where their organs will be harvested one by one; and
3. the factory owner (read: communist party plutocrat) isn't diverting profits into PRC military modernization.
But let's face it, Apple, like every other American/multinational corporation is about the bottom line and that means cheap labor, and that means China, even if the end result is sub-standard, defective products, as long as the shareholders are happy screw the consumer.
The macbook would be improved dramatically if the optical drive was removed, a cooler, less powerful CPU would be used (e.g. U7500), more air/fan vents on the back of the unit, and the hard drive would be replaced with an SSD drive.