Airport broke, then hardware.

I had my beautiful Macbook for a month (no RSD blues or discoloration problems). Then one day my airport icon disappeared from the top of my screen. I could not use it to connect to the internet because it disappeared. I looked under the About this Mac and it decided that the airport no longer existed. After many hopeful restarts, I called Apple. They had me try all sorts of things with no luck... airport had suddenly gone on vacation. They agreed to let me exchange it for a new laptop.
The very next time I tried to start up my computer it would not turn on. No chime, just a faint grey screen. Frusterated, I called Apple back... they had me do the forced start thing and hold it down until I heard the second try.
That worked for each subsequent attempt to use my computer until I shipped it back. I'm really bummed that it's going to take them awhile to send me a new one.
I was just wondering if anyone else had this problem? After the airport dilemmna I tried to find help, but it seems no one else had that problem. Do you think that was just a precurser to the hardware problem and that they are both related?

Also a week 29 here - about 3 weeks ago, my Airport icon suddenly vanished - as above, not just a case of unable to find my (or any other) station, but System Preferences > Network (and 'About this Mac')informed me that this computer had no Airport hardware at all.
News to me.
It took about 3 reboots to get it to find the Airport Hardware again. The Mac had the most recent updates applied, so no real reason there. I've not had it occur since (and I've just recently applied the most recent Airport Update - not that it 'officially' does anything but stop illegal access to the Mac from online) and hope it was just an anomally. But -
In truth, its been kinda patchy as to its 'discovery' of hardware connected to it - a Restart (or even a fresh boot) will often mean it won't find the flash drive and/or external hard drive, so I guess the Airport is just another one of the victims.
Less than entirely delighted by my "Return to Mac Experience"(away for 15 years) thus far....

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