How reliable is macbook pro retina

I'm thinking of buying a macbook pro retina. I want to know if anyone has had any particular problems with the pro retina, or whether people have had generally good experiences. Thank you.

This is the wrong place to ask. Everyone is here because they have problems. No one is here because they haven't had a problem. All you find here is a severely biased sample. Any result you get here is unreliable.

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