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I'm considering it, but I'm leery of a pre-order from China.
I would use it primarily as an e-reader and a chat client. I use a desktop for my heavy duty computing.
I mean, everything comes from China. But you mean the processor could be doing nepharious things under the hood to steal data from us and give it to China?
Personally, I do not like the fact that the money they make from the device will end up as a portion of taxes going to the CCP. Plus all the card/address info being sent there too.
I'm assuming you don't own a phone /s