[Leggibone]

If you bought it from John Lewis or some of the other major retailers, they chuck a 2-3 year warranty in these days.
I do agree that a grands worth of laptop should last - and most macs do seem to by what I’ve read.
Definitely kick up more of a fuss. This can happen to anything but £500 to replace the whole logic board is bananas! It may be the geniuses are qualified to do let them I thought through if they can diagnose a component (say the cpu or memory) to be wrong and they just replace the whole board!