MacBook shutting itself off. Genius bar supposedly fixed?

I have a macbook pro, I purchased in January, so not even a year old. A few months ago it strated acting strange with lines traveling across the screen sporadically, shutting itself off, and shutting down when I plug anything into the USB port. Then the other day it shut itself down and wouldn't restart. Went through all the stuff on the phone with the tech line and they determined I needed to take it in. So yesterday I drove the 120 miles to the nearest Apple store to have it looked at. Spent about 3 1/2 hours at the genius bar while they did whatever they do in the back, then wiped and reloaded everything on the computer. They ran their diagnostic after and said it's good to go and gave it back to me. This morning I turned it on and tried to plug my iphone in and it shut itself off again. Then after I restarted it, in the middle of doing some work it randomly shut itself off. I'm really getting irritated. What kind of junk is Apple selling people for $1500? I though macs were suppose to be good? This isn't good, it's junk. I'm looking for options as to how to make this think work right. I can't keep driving 120 miles both ways back and forth for Apple's incompetant people to do whatever they do, wipe and reload the entire machine, not bother fixing the problem, and hand it back to me like it's fine... Anyone have any good ideas?

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