To go back to Apple, in second year university (back when Apple made the best laptops for running Linux) I bought a high end MBP that fried its main board liter

To go back to Apple, in second year university (back when Apple made the best laptops for running Linux) I bought a high end MBP that fried its main board literally 2 days out of warrantee. Luckily it has been serviced by them the week earlier, and I took it back in to plead my case. I think the tech took pitty on me and accepted that the issue could have been related to the previous work, and I got an almost new MBP. At that time, there was no way i could afford another decent laptop.