To buy or not to buy now......

I need to buy a new laptop since my sons is on it last leg. I was trying to hold off til Sept when they announce the new models????? I think! After reading the posts I'm unsure of buying now since there still seem to be so many unresolved issues. I know that things inly get better and cheaper buut the need is here! Let me know how your experience has been and any thought that you have. Thanks for your help! Jim

No doubt other MacBook Pro owners will contribute their opinions, but I'd like to set a bit of perspective for you. These forums are intended for people to come here and post their problems, so by nature what you're going to see will indeed be problems. The many thousands of MBP owners who are having no troubles have little reason to post to a technical support bulletin board, so just reading here will give you a skewed perspective on the issues. Quoting another regular contributor to the Discussions, "Trying to judge Macs by this forum is like trying to judge the health of a community by looking at the hospital ER".
There can be problems with any system and yours could fail at some point. The strong likelihood, though, is that you'll have no problems with your system whatsoever, particularly if you take care to give it a proper environment - low static, high quality power protection (no $15 hardware store special surge protectors), etc. - power problems are the number one cause of chronic computer problems. I've owned at least eleven Macs since Macs first appeared, and have only had a hardware problem with one (a bad hard drive in a Mac SE more years ago than I care to admit).
As to future revisions, there's no guarantee that there will be any revisions to the MacBook Pro in September. There have been rumors, but most rumors are found to be false.
So make your decision based on what's available, not what might appear at some point in the future. If you need a new system now, get one of the current MacBook Pros. The odds are that it will give you no problems at all.

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