Let me way in on this one. Forget the naysayers. The TaifaLaptop project is the way to go. Remember the Indian and Chinese firms which started small? They used perfectly the philosophy of "imitate then innovate". Tata, Huawei, ZTE, Mahindra all fall in this category. Tata went on to be so big it bought Land Rover. When visiting Huawei factory in China, you would find then reverse engineering Cisco equipments. Huawei network equipments and telecommunications devices are now mainstream.

Let us support local brands, we never know,  Taifa Laptop may one day buy Apple :)