I've had a Mac since 2004. In that time, I had several defective logic boards and several defective displays, and one (slowly, harmlessly) exploding battery. In

I've had a Mac since 2004. In that time, I had several defective logic boards and several defective displays, and one (slowly, harmlessly) exploding battery. In these cases, I also had to read off a tiny gray serial number off my laptop somewhere, this isn't really new. Hardware fails sometimes, it happens. In my experience, Apple's hardware in the last few years is much more reliable than their hardware a decade ago. Their software quality, on the other hand...