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I use to buy Macs on eBay and take them into the Apple store for a free fix before selling them again, the good old days... my experience is that Apple will fix pretty much anything if you kick up enough fuss (and have a backlog of products on file). They also guarantee the machine, not the buyer, a neat approach for second hand buyers.
I also used to call them out on the "you must have done this" approach with a swift technical breakdown of why the (often "first release") product had failed due to manufacturing error.
In general Macs last longer than their PC counter parts as the build quality is better, there's some independent test somewhere about it, can't be bothered to look. Never buy the first iteration of a model though and it's possible that Macs nowadays are of inferior quality for some reason or another, but the historical "quality" brand element holds true.