Horizontal line macbook air

Have a Good day.
Is terrible that apple sells defective equipment, i bought a macbook air in apple store miami, the machine now is displaying a horizontal line in the monitor, i called to apple , the support told me thati it is normal, and that they cant do anything because the warranty was expired.
in some articles i read that apple had a problem with aorund 700.000 of units of macs including macbook air 11,1 ,13 in and 15 inch.
Jesus Antonio.

"Normal"?
Can't reply much to what you said without more detail. You don't even say how old it is. There must have been something more to this story for the term, "normal" to be applied here.
Or instead did the representative say something that it was not "extraordinary" for a component(display) to fail after xx years?
But yes, it is unfortunate that any component, designed and built by humans are subject to imperfection. But Apple does have a warranty, and a way to extend that warranty for as much as 3 years. At that point, not even Apple will extend it further. That should be indicator enough that component life is finite, and somehat expectant for failure after a time. We all hope though that it is something inexpensive before we decide to retire the old hardware. But alas, it isn't always the case.
Did/do you have Applecare?

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