Should I wait before getting a new MBP?

Hello, I am excited to purchase my very first Mac Laptop. I've been looking at the new Haswell MBP 15" retina. I've read over the forums and it sounds like some issues such as overheating, optimization of mavericks, and gpu switching in the upper end model are still problems with the new systems. I would probably use bootcamp and do some gaming. I've heard some of these issues may be due to hardware. I wanted to get people's opinion on how widespread these problems are and if I should wait until there is some resolution. I would probably purchase it sometime in December if I do get one.

Reading about MBP problems on these forums is not necessarily a good index as to whether a certain MBP model is faulty or not.  People with problems or complaints post here.  People with MBPs without issues do not.
If your world was restricted to a hospital, you might think that the entire populous is ill.  Go outside that hospital and you find most people are healthy.
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