I have a SONY VAIO for 12 years. It has NEVER given me any problems, and for some time now I've been thinking about trading for an MBP. I wasn't sure about switching my VAIO / W7 because of the criticism I've been reading in recent years about what Apple was doing with its computers and complaints about the keyboard, temperature, slow speed and so on. Glad to have waited because this MBP is amazing. I really hope that this model doesn't show any issues as the previous ones.