MBP - Buy or wait?

Hello -
Ok, I'm in the market for a new laptop. Ibook has been holding up brilliantly for four years and I can continue to work on it without a problem. But I want a MacBook! After reading through all the issues posted re: heat, whine, moo, etc. I'm wondering if it makes sense to wait a few months until these issues are resolved. No real reason I couldn't other than my need for immediate gratification. Any ideas how long it might take before it's a bit "safer" a bet to pick up an MBP (i.e. when is apple going to fix these bugs)?
ibookg3 Mac OS X (10.3.9)

I am on the same boat wanting to buy a MBP because of it look and performance, but because of the problems I am seeing on this forum, I am going to get a cheaper one from another supplier for the time being till Apple fix their problems.
But as of today 17 May 2006, I am very sure I am not going to get an Apple MBP with an Intel dure core processor due to AMD's announcement of their Turion 64x2 processor ready to ship and OEMs systems will be out in June.
This AMD 32/64 bit dure core processor is far superior to Intel 32 bit dure core processor due to its direct memory & peripheral access. And there is also a very high chance of system memory getting above the max 4GB limit on the 32 bit system. This will give people like us the power and speed we need. I really hope that Apple does not read and take notice of this forum (as they mentioned) and stick to Intel and still keep to its promise of providing the most powerful systems. This will keep them at lease 6 months behind all other supplier who uses AMD processor. And by the time Intel comes out with their 64 bit dure core processor, Microsoft Windows Vista will be out early next year that can only support AMD 64 bit processor. User of Intel 64 bit processor will have to wait another 6 months for Microsoft to integrade the Intel 64 bit into their os.

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