> so the story here is (a) he got a lemon Well isn't that misleading too? The OP's experience includes two replacement computers, and the original "lemon" was

> so the story here is (a) he got a lemon Well isn't that misleading too? The OP's experience includes two replacement computers, and the original "lemon" was replaced a little after two months after purchase. Depending on how you want to look at the replacements, OP got a total of two, or maybe even three lemons, since the second replacement computer appears to have had its share of issues too. Looking at the OP's issue history in the post, that seems to be a LOT of issues to have in that time span, no matter how good the AppleCare service is.