So my boy has a MacBook Pro for his work and school.  He woke up the other day and the display didn't come up.  Perfectly working 6 hours prior.  Ok, so he calls Apple Care after my googling of finding out if this was a problem.  After seeing a few threads on this same issue and people getting pissed off, seems that a batch of G84 and G86 nVidia video chipsets were bad in the Macbook Pros.  Ok, so he calls and we've already run through the reset of PRAM (Control Command P U) among other things.   The external montor doesn't light up so that's the problem of the video card.  So he gets an appointment on Thursday for Saturday at 2pm at the Apple Store in Green Hills.  Ok cool, or so we thought.   Saturday gets here, we take it in and bam.  They tell him it'll be 5-7 days.  WOW.

I bought a Toshiba Satellite, cheap one, and the screen went out.  Toshiba next day aired a box with return shipping, put the laptop in the box and sent it back.  I had a new screen put in and back in my hands in 2 days.

5-7 day wait is unacceptible period.  Especially when you take it in the shop down the street.  When Macs go, they really go.  Another of my reason not to buy an expensive door stop...