Macbook pro 's quality

I am considering to buy macbook or macbook pro, but i scare of alot of problem of apple's computer now, because some website in asia such as Thailand, they said that since apple produce macbook or macbook pro, the quality is bad because they have alot of problem with hardware, so make some of asia user turn back to PC.
How do you think about that?

Every computer model occasionally has its "lemons". With the Macs they are far and few between. It may very well be this publication was not able to get a demo unit from Apple to test, and simply went ahead and bought what they could find. I suggest if you are in Thailand to search this website:
http://www.asia.apple.com/buy/
For an authorized reseller near you to go and test the machines for yourself. If you find a reseller selling a poor quality machine on display, please call Apple Thailand:
(66) 02 681-2081
And tell them the store isn't doing a good job. Naturally it is possible to have some resellers that hold on to old stock because the people who run them either are PC biased, and don't care what they sell, or they don't have the money to upkeep their store with the latest equipment.
Usually authorized resellers do a good job. Here in the U.S. for instance, CompUSA is about to go out of business, and we are seeing a few compromised machines discussed here. So be careful who you buy from is good.
Don't let the preponderance of issues on these boards scare you. This is a hospital ward. Mostly sick machines report in.

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