Apple MacBook Pro 15in Core i7 2.8GHz Retina (MGXG2LL/A), 16GB RAM, 1TB Solid State Drive (Renewed)

On first day using it, after charging, laptop dies when it hits 45% battery. Pretty weird, so I reset the SMC because the watermark might be off. Doesn't fix it. I notice several gestures on trackpad don't work, and there are no "click" sounds or feel when I click. Fan never stops going, all processes are extremely slow (remember, this is a 16GB RAM computer and I am not doing anything other than browsing the internet at this point). I take it to Apple service, they tell me that despite only having 5 cycles, the battery is "bloated", which means it was either bad quality to begin with or stored poorly/for a very long time. They tell me it might be pushing the trackpad up and might be causing the overheating and other problems, but they can't service it because it was handled "unofficially" (whatever that means).UPDATE: I had to replace the entire topcase for $750 dollars, and found out that this computer is a 2.5GHz, not the 2.8 described in the product title. JemJem has shown no willingness to help even with the cost of repairing this horrible, misadvertised product, so I cannot more strongly recommend that no one buys a product from them. For the $1840 I already put into this computer I could have bought a newer one directly from Apple.

I didn't want to spend all the money for a new machine, so I took a chance on this one which said "like new". It's a MacBook Pro 15in Quad Core i7 2.8GHz Retina (MGXG2LL/A), 16GB RAM, 1TB Solid State Drive (Renewed). They weren't kidding. It was pretty much in "like new" condition. The screen and the keyboard are perfect and the case had a just a couple of really tiny scratches on the bottom. With a Mid 2014 machine, I don't think you could expect it to be any better. It works beautifully. I run a lot of of software, since I'm a software engineer by trade and a musician by passion. I use several audio processing programs along with Sibelius notation software. In general, I have at least 10 apps open at a time. Some of these are not light weight applications. I don't know if all these machines come from the same source? This one came from the seller "Always Less Than Apple" in Richardson, TX. I wouldn't hesitate to buy from them again. They did a really great job, and if I don't kill it, this machine will be worth something when I decide to move up to a machine with Apple silicon. Pesuming that is the architecture at the time. With Apple, you never know.