First of all, the delivery time is way too slow. 4-5 days is a long time to wait. Second, if there is a problem with your purchase (like mine) your money is tied up for about 10 days. That’s how long it took from time of purchase to getting the money back in my account. Not to mention all of the phone calls to tech support and Amazon trying to get this to work. If you have lots of money and plenty of time, you may be able to save a few bucks buying refurbished. It was not worth it to me.My experience: The MacBook Pro I bought arrived in an original MacBook Pro box. It looked like a new computer. I was so excited, thinking what a smart purchase it was. Unfortunately, my excitement was quickly diminished when trying it out for the first time. I opened the lid on the computer and it fired right up. I went through all the set up prompts and all seemed fine. I was so happy.  However, when I closed the computer and reopened it a few minutes later it asked for my password. I entered it and it didn’t recognize it. After a few more attempts of what I know was the password it started the time out process. No worries right?  I bought the Asurion protection plan with tech support so I gave them a call. Well, that didn’t work out either. After working with them (for a while) to fix the problem it just got worse. The computer started crashing and would not restart. We tried it with the charger and with out. We closed the lid and opened the lid of the computer hoping it would restart. Nothing. The tech said it should not be working this way and recommended returning it. As we were speaking I opened the lid again and wala it started up. We started the password reset again, and it crashed again. Again, he said it’s not supposed to work this way. So he connected me to Amazon to start the return process. So there you have it the computer was returned. My money was tied up for 10 days, and I lost about 4 hours with all of the follow up calls and time it took to take to the UPS store for return. I won’t ever try to make this kind of purchase on Amazon again.