Macbook pro 13" from 2010 does not turn on.

Hello, I own a Macbook Pro 13" bought on 2010. I was using it last night and everything was working correctly. This morning it just does not turn on. I can hear the fan and the HD light but 3-4 seconda later it just restart and it goes this way all the time. This model does not have removable battery and I hace already tried to reset SMC. The battery is charging (magsafe light is orange). Should I take it to the store? Many thanks in advance!

This happened to me as well. I was installing a CPU-intensive piece of software and closed my macbook to let it do its work. A few hours later I opened up my macbook and it had shut down. Pressing the start button did nothing. I am from the school of PC and I have never encountered a laptop that could be damaged by malfunctioning software. I agree that it is a ripoff and seems like a way for Apple to make more money off of customers by forcing us to buy AppleCare (I know I'll probably have to do it now that I know my macbook is an unreliable piece of crap). A PC laptop will shut down if it overheats or reaches some other kind of threshold where going further will damage the hardware. Some kind of fail-safe mechanism was always built into my Dell and Asus PC laptops. I am shocked that it does not exist for Apple.
What a disappointment. While I love the user-friendliness of the OS X interface it will be the last time I buy a mac machine. Shutting down for a day and refusing to turn on because it didn't like some malfunctioning software or that it overheated itself (a PC simply shuts down and will turn on again once it's cool) looks like a scam to me and when I need to use my laptop for both school and work this lack of reliability is unacceptable.
I am never buying a mac again.

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