If there;s a report that 50% of the buses on the street are on a stampede, yes- I might just stay indoors, or excercise extreme caution.
Okay, then I'm telling you right now. 50% of the buses in the street are death traps. You have a 50% chance that the bus you get on next will burst into flames, trapping you in a fiery, agonizing death.
Stay inside now. Evidently, you believe any non-authoritative source that can pull any figure out of a hat and present it to you.
I am planning on returning it because of the issues tons of people have ALREADY EXPERIENCED, and the QUALITY CONTROL of Apple is being questioned.
I'm sorry, but your logic continues to be flawed. You are basing your logic on a forum that is intended to be a support base for people with questions and problems with their Apple product. That means that - surprise, surprise - a healthy majority of posts on here are going to be something like "my mac is broken! what's wrong OMG APPLE sucks!" Meanwhile, a hefty amount of people with functioning Apple products are going to remain largely silent, because it normally doesn't strike people as worth it to post a message saying "hey, no reason for posting! My mac is fine!"
My thinking was that I should return this, and once Apple irons out the present issues and its QC problems, then I would buy it.
If you're convinced that your Mac is going to fail, then return it. Clearly you've made up your mind, and no one can persuade you otherwise... including the empirical evidence of you owning this machine for a week now, without incident.
As for when you buy a new one? Never. I recommend that you never buy one again. Mac is just not for you. As is apparently, any cutting edge product, for that matter.
Lastly, as you're returning your MacBook Pro for someone else to buy as a reduced-price refurb that they will enjoy for years to come, chew on this:
Apple made a HUGE profit this past quarter, on record sales of Mac computers. Generally, a company with a 50% failure rate on their products does not make a profit, because they are too busy losing money on their product returns. Yet the financial results suggest that while iPods and iPhones continue t fuel revenue, more people than ever before are happily buying Macs, and most of them tend to work just fine.
Count me as one of them: I own a MacBook Pro, and I'm happy enough that when my desktop Windows computer finally dies, I'm going all-Mac.
EDIT: Is this post "abusing" the OP? I don't really think so. S/he has taken a defeatist approach to the possibility of owning a Mac, and is assuming their MBP will fail without any direct evidence that their particular machine will have any problems at all. How do you defend or persuade against that? You simply don't, and if the person has already made up their mind that all Apple products are damaged goods, then they are probably better off not buying Apple, plain and simple. I will just find it overwhelming funny and ironic if they buy a Dell and end up having to get it fixed under warranty, as I have many Dell products have that we've bought at work (I estimate a 30-40% failure rate, based on my history with them).
