Seriously? Even before the macbook pro GPU issues, the very first gen models had like... 10 hardware revisions because of how many issues they had. I know some people who went through 4 machines before they got one that lasted.

This also leaves out the second gen white macbook issues with the bottoms falling off and failed motherboards, and so many other things. Although i could definitely dredge up more G3-G4 era stuff that wasn't mentioned(tons of tibook issues, other ibook g3/g4 issues not mentioned, failing imac g3 power supplies/displays in huge batches, imac GPU failures in the first few c2d generations, core duo imac display failures, etc)

I remember there being huge online discussions about these issues. A number of them generated tons of pissed off people online, and apple was resistant to fixing a lot of them at first or would only do it on a case by case basis until it became overwhelming.