Hard drive and logic board failure

Hi everyone,
we have been suffering from 4 dead hard drives and one logic board failure in 20-inch intel iMacs (~2007) recently and last month the logic board and hard drive of a 2010 27-inch iMac (just out of warranty) just died.
Are there any known issues with the iMacs that Apple fixes even outside the warranty?

Frank:  I have a 5 month old 27" iMac and the logic board on it just died as well as I was getting all kinds of kerner errors.  I have Apple Care and although the cost to replace the product was $800 I am not going to have to pay anything.  I did talk to someone else who also had a logic board go bad on him but I doubt that you will be able to get it fixed without having to fork over $$$

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