I disagree about thinking the next update would be better. This is revision C for the MBP...there will always be some issues, so the third time should be a good time to get one, before they do a even bigger update which could bring more bugs.
Regardless of it being Rev A, B, C or Z, when you have new machines with new motherboards etc etc, I think we can all agree that is a revision.
Charles Moore wrote a decent opinion piece recently (
http://www.macopinion.com/index.php/site/more/is_now_a_good_time_to_buy_a_macbook/) - here's an excerpt:
Once a computer model has been in production for more than a year, and undergone a couple of generational updates, as the MacBook now has, one can be reasonably confident that it's been pretty thoroughly debugged and that early production glitches and gremlins have been ironed out (although do be aware that a new bug affecting use of external monitors has cropped up in the Revision C MacBook, see:
http://docs.info.apple.com/article.html?artnum=305507 ). A minor speed bump using chips that have been used in the MacBook Pro models for eight months is highly unlikely to introduce any new bugs or reliability issues, so if you're looking for a relatively "safe" time to buy, a window of opportunity has just opened with the Revision C MacBooks.
If I had posted 3 months ago that the next 15" MBP was going to have LED screens, new GPU, more RAM capacity, SR and a new motherboard amongst other things, but all in all it's a minor revision, I wonder how many people would have agreed.
But I think we can agree that the recent MB update was less major than the MBP (new screens, faster bus etc etc) and when new features untested by the company are added, there's bound to be teething bugs - as I said in my first post this happens with all new tech products. Once Apple identifies what the problem is, it can start fixing them and the next update should have some of the kinks removed. If we compare the recent revisions to both MBs and MBPs, which machine would you expect to have more new problems discovered?
The new MBPs have a new motherboard. As I'm sure you're all aware, there were teething problems when Apple redesigned this component previously; Macintouch did a survey of over 2,800 laptops at the end of last year, it found that out of Apple's current laptops, the one that was most likely to need repairs was the 15" MBP - because of the motherboard... Macintouch in its conclusions commented that it believed Apple had changed supplier and that aspect was becoming less of an issue.
Now because Apple is using a new motherboard, it's theoretically possible that the new design may have teething problems too - in which case, Apple will fix it like it did last time. Similarly, if there is an issue with the screens that Apple needs to take action over - if this is the case, it's sometimes beneficial to wait until the next update when the situation is improved (such as changing the plastic used in MBs re: discolouration problem).
Anyhoo, I don't particularly want to argue about this so that's all I'm gonna say - my first post was merely saying that if you want a machine with teething problems removed you often have to wait for the next update and I made no claims to that the next revision will have no problems - but I would feel a bit guilty if I just left to
eenu to defend my point!
