Motherboard broken Macbook Pro Sept 2012 (13 months old)

My MacBook Pro is just over a year old, arrived Oct 2012: I have never dropped it and always took great care of it e.g. letting battery fully die before recharging etc. Two weeks ago the when I restarted it the grey loading circle screen came on and wouldn't log in. I ran disk repairs and reset the PRAM. Still wouldn't work so I gave it into a regular computer store to be repaired. They initally thought the harddisk was broken but now they're telling me that the Motherboard is gone. How can this be? It's only 13 months old!

I would ask for it back and do one simple test. Remove the original hard drive and connect it to the system with a SATA to USB adapter and run the system from that drive. If you still get errors buy a new hard drive and do the same, connect it to the computer with a SATA to USB adapter and install OS X on it and run the system from there.
If the system runs fine with the original drive it is not the drive or the logic board (Motherboard) that is the problem.
It is more than likely the cable going from the drive to the logic board that is the problem. If the system doesn't run fine with the original but does with a new drive with a clean install of OS X then it was the original drive.
You would expect a Mac computer costing much more than a Windows PC with the exact same hardware would last longer. But the simple fact is any electronic device, no matter who brands/sells it or how much it costs, can fail at any time.

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