This I've got to agree with, they are EXTREMELY reliable machines in my experience, I've never had an issue with one other than my DVD drive on my first macbook but I never used that really anyways, it honestly could have been broken from the factory and I just noticed it after about a year (still in AppleCare). I watched my friends buy a new PC every 1-2 years because theirs were literally falling apart but continue to buy $500-$600 crap laptops.