How can I complain about a logic board failure after warranty??

My iBook G4 12" has been diagnosed with logic board failure. I just bought it 1 year and 2 months ago..and the tecnhical service charges me US 820!!! for change the logic board (more than the half of the original price of the notebook!!!). I can't believe that a notebook could die so soon. I live in Chile (SouthAmerica) so I don't know how can I complain to Apple..I think they should respond for this because is a fabric failure right?

The Danish government is pressuring Apple to admit this is a design flaw, but so far they have not commented on the subject. If you have local consumer protection agencies, you could try making a complaint to them about Apple, but I'm not sure I like your chances.

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Is there anything I can possibly do about these logic boards?

Ok, I have 4 broken 4th Generation iPods. Two of them are white 20GB models, one is a white 40GB model, and one is a U2 Special Edition 20GB model. All of them have broken logic boards. Every month or so I give them another go to see if I can get any of them working. But, like usual, I tried today and had no luck.
EDIT: Let me specify, these are all monochrome 4th generation models.
The difference here (as opposed to previous attempts) is that now I have a working monochrome 4G (meaning a perfect functioning logic board) that I purchased since my last attempt at fixing these (meaning I now have 1 working iPod but still the 4 broken ones). I was able to restore one of my spare hard drives (20GB MK2006GAL model) with firmware version 3.1.1 using this working iPod. I was even able to add songs, and after disconnecting, play them in the working iPod. Not to mention, the hard drive sounds like it is running beautifully.
So, I thought, "maybe if I plug a 4th gen formatted, working hard drive with the latest 4th gen firmware into one of these corrupted iPods, they'll at least play the music, even if they won't connect to the PC". Wrong. I still get the old routine of Apple logo, folder icon, "Do not disconnect" for about 5 seconds until it resets itself to the Apple logo, a sad face, and finally a low battery sign (regardless of how charged the battery is) in that exact order. This occurs with 3 of the logic boards. The other logic board, which was originally in the U2 iPod, is able to boot up, and choose a language, but the logic board is broken in that the battery is undetected (no charging, and as soon as you unplug it, poof, its gone). I've tried several batteries that I know work; I am 100% positive it is a logic board issue.
I've tried diagnostic mode on each and every iPod. On the working 4th gen (with functioning logic board), they pass HDD R/W and HDD SCAN. But they never complete on any other iPod; even after an hour, they've done nothing, and act like they have frozen. I've run the 5-in-1 test on each of these, and they all complete fine.
So... I guess it all comes down to corrupted logic boards prevent the iPod from properly booting, connecting, and completing diagnostic tests. Is there ANYTHING I can do to rewrite or fix these files? Would connecting to a Mac help at all? (I ask because there is no Mac available to me, not even at a local computer store, but if you guys think it would help, I would go out of my way to the Apple store about 1 hour away). I know Mac's use different formats for the hardware, but I thought this was all hard drive related. Thanks for any help/recommendations/etc.
Oh, one last note, about that logic board that is able to boot but can't detect the battery: It actually can tell if theres a battery there, but it just doesn't... work. Like, if I have a completely dead battery installed, and I try to plug it in, I get the battery with exclamation point icon. If I plug it in with a battery 50% charged, it will boot and the battery icon will show that is it 50% charged, but it won't charge it, and it still turns off it its disconnected. Any help with this would be great as well.

I tried running the HP tool today, to see if that would help, but it to was unable to detect my iPod.
I should also point out that Windows can not detect my iPod either (and thus it has no drive assigned to it).

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My friend and I bought coins on a game. He bought rather a large amount and put it in alliance. someone else in alliance hacked the game and fed people fake coins and our alliance too. Haypi Kingdom then took the coins (which is fine) banned his account and left it at that. they also too my friend's 650 coins he bought and now refuse to refund or give them back as they were not hacked and were not used.
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Hi! Does anyone had problems regarding logic board failure on Macbooks Pro 13''?
I've bought mine 2 years ago and it started to fail. I took it to the technical support and was told that the logic board was damaged and it had to be changed. The warranty expired last november, so I have to pay for it. The problem is the logic board costs almost the price of a new macbook pro.
It is not possible that Apple think it is ok that a notebook that expensive lasts only two years.
I'm in Brazil and here there is no Apple store. So I'll probably have to buy another laptop ( and sadly I don´t know if I'm going to buy a mac again... not with it lasting as little and being the parts so expensive. )

Hi! Does anyone had problems regarding logic board failure on Macbooks Pro 13''?
I don't have the problem, but it's been percolating on another discussion for several years now:
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My MacBook Pro was bought in September 2010. It has been running smoothly until January 2014. Then from 1 day to the next, the MacBook restarted itself randomly 1-2 times / day. Bringing it to the Apple store in Frankfurt, Germany revealed that the Logic Board was broken and needed to be exchanged.
The person at the Genius bar was very friendly and sympathetic. He told me that this should not happen to an Apple product, ie it should have a much longer life time. He mentioned that the logic board problem is very well known to Apple, but usually manifests within the first 2 years, which is why Apple extended its guarantee to 2 years. In my case however, the failure happened later and he would therefore need to consult with the store manager Roland.
To my surprise, I learnt that Roland was neither willing to extend the guarantee period, nor was he even willing to speak with me in person. The genius bar person was quite ashamed about this and excused his boss. He advised that I could either exchange the logic board for ~470 Euro or , recommended, buy an entirely new MacBook Pro for which he'd give me a 10% discount.
Because I needed the laptop urgently for travels to the US with several talks at academic institutions, I reacted quickly and initiated the logic board exchange.
The repair time took twice as long as originally indicated and it is my impression that the repaired laptop is somewhat slower than the original one.
I left a message at Apple feedback, so far without a reaction.

Hi! Does anyone had problems regarding logic board failure on Macbooks Pro 13''?
I don't have the problem, but it's been percolating on another discussion for several years now:
https://discussions.apple.com/thread/2675881?start=0&tstart=0
You might think about posting there, too, so others can read about your issue.

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My mom has a flat-panel iMac (20") that has been refusing to boot since this past weekend. My sister and I tried every trick we could come up with to get it to boot, but the only thing that resulted in anything other than a blinking question mark was powering up while holding the eject button. This caused the computer to boot up from the external firewire hard drive. We were not able to get the disc tray to open, so we couldn't start up from the Hardware Test CD. I have two questions:
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Nothing is ever as easy as it should be, though I've no idea what you were doing that took so long. Takes at most 5 mins to insert a SIM card, choose a language and activate the phone. At that point it is working. Another 5-10 mins should get you connected to your email account. You can add media & apps when you're not busy doing something else, and the phone can still make & receive calls while you're doing that!
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