A couple years back, my $3000 MBP randomly died. It was around a year old. I had to take it to the Apple Store. They couldn't fix it. They had to ship it some place else for repair. I was out $600 and a week with no work computer. If you depend on a computer for work and can't afford to be without for extended periods of time, it seems to me that you'd want one that was actually repairable.