Yeah, but equivalently priced hardware is just as good if not better. I put as much money in a PC build as I would have in a Mac Pro, and I got a 1000w PSU replaced for free because it had 7-year warranty. So, it is not something special about Apple. If you are willing to put the price you will get pretty good hardware. If anything, you are more likely to be left hanging the short stick with Apple because they are unwilling to warrant their stuff for a long time no matter what price you buy it. Not without reason, because realistically, most of their hardware post 2015 really is not any good.

> They have fixed a faulty GPU on a 4 year old laptop for free

I have to laugh at this.

Apple had a well known strategy of denying that obvious problems with their devices were not actually problems with their devices until 5-10 years later when no one would be using those devices anymore, at which point they would announce a recall, which involved a tedious process of proving it's the right device, and shipping it to Apple for days or taking it to an Apple Store for repairs.

In the meanwhile they would deny that it was ever a problem. The good thing was that a lot of Apple Geniuses were absolutely decent people and would probably give you a repair for free although they were supposed to try to get you to pay for the repairs.

I mean, just consider how long Apple denied the following, highly public recall worthy issues (and then extrapolate that to how they would behave with something that was less publicized and had a failure rate of about 10% as opposed to the much higher failure rates exhibited in these situations):

1. You're holding it wrong, iPhone 4. 2. No, your battery is not degraded...you're just imagining that your battery life is low 3. We fixed the degraded battery....no your phone hasn't slowed down...you're just imagining it. 4. Butterfly keyboards.