Who has a MacBook Air from Refurbished products source?  Good or Bad?

What has been your experience? Is there anything I need to be aware of if I order a refurbished MacBook Air. My experience with other refurbished Apple products has been 100% satisfaction.

I bought a refurb Air the first day they appeared on apple.com. It has been fantastic; I haven't seen any of the common problems talked about here. I can get one of the cores to shut down, say after a while of ichat video, but I haven't noticed that the system becomes especially slow when that happens. My only complaint is that my trackpad button doesn't like to stay clicked without a fair bit of force *in the center*. Next time I'm in a city with an Apple store I'll check that out.
I'm wondering if maybe refurb isn't the way to go -- perhaps an overheating unit that got some special attention from an Apple serviceperson that reapplied just the right amount of thermal paste?

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