[slantyyz]

>> Bizarre for a company that usually adhere's to high manufacturing standards.

That's more perception than reality. They're better than the cheaper low end commodity manufacturers, but so is Lenovo and Dell's higher end stuff.

Apple, however, is far from perfect in this regard.

I have one of those 2011 Macbook Pros that you might have heard about. I've already replaced my motherboard once to address the GPU issue, and it took a couple more months for the problem to appear again. I'm kinda stuck with it now because my AppleCare ran out, and I'm not forking out >$500 plus tax to replace a part on a 3 year old computer. I'm also not about to stick my motherboard in the oven to try to fix it either (https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=7371908).