Would you buy a refurbished MBP from Apple?

I'm like 2 seconds away from buying a new MBP. But then I noticed the Apple Refurbs. They come with all the same software and specs, and the 1-year warranty. Is there any reason not to save a few hundred bucks on get one of these?

Hello,
Just wanted to follow up on my experience on buying a refurb. I posted a few weeks ago under the alias of action74 (above), that I was considering a refurb. I bought a 15" MBP 2.2 standard configuation refurb model from the online store. It would have been a great deal saving me about $250.
When I received the computer, there were some imediate things that I noticed were wrong. Leopard wasnt preinstalled like I was led to believe, so I had to install it myself which not only took about 2 hours of my time, but also another 5 gigs of my already small harddrive. I also noticed that the keyboard "squeeked"... it was very annoying, and the keys were abnormally stiff. But most concerning was that I couldnt even run a repair permissions from disk utility without the whole computer freezing. I had to manually turn off the computer and restart from the power button. There were a few other minor things as well, but I wont go into detail here. Suffice it to say that I wasnt happy after paying over $1700 for a semi working computer. I sent it back and bought a new one... and upgraded to the 2.4 model.
The one bright spot here was the Customer Service. Both of the folks I talked to during this 1 week ordeal were very curtious and expedited the new model to my overnight at no charge as well as providing free return shipping and no restock fee. I would hope that anyone business would do that for their customers, but these days..... who knows. I was happy and satisfied with the way they handled it.
My new MBP has been working great.
Thanks
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