Good Time To Buy?!?! MBP

Looking at a MBP 15" 2.8ghz 4gb ram
I will be doing word docs, itunes, and Final Cut Pro video editing on the laptop. The reason I ask this is because of how many people are having freezing problems or have they figured out the problem now and the Brand New Laptops on the shelves today dont carry the freezing problem?
Thanks!

I am not aware of any specific freezing problems. I have not even seen a significant number of comments with respect to freezing for any generation of MacBook. Having said that... there are some people experiencing issues after a recent firmware update who have installed their own hard drives / SSDs. If you don't plan on installing your own drive, this isn't an issue.

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