Sounds like you got a lemon. I'm sorry that happened to you. I've never had trouble with Macs reporting hardware faults. I mean, drives fail WAY less often now

Sounds like you got a lemon. I'm sorry that happened to you. I've never had trouble with Macs reporting hardware faults. I mean, drives fail WAY less often now than they used to, so it's a rare event, but the errors I've gotten have been pretty easy to parse and interpret.