My mac book has been a total disappointment. How has yours been?

Question

First screen cracked now it will not load looks if the hard drive has been wiped. it cannot find it and apple replaced the charger because it would not charge
I am going to have to pay a lot of money to have it repaired and it is only 18 months old

Answer 1

I have had the crack for about a month and it only stopped working last night.
That doesn't rule out hardware problems.  I dropped a MBP, and it continued working normally for about a month, then just suddenly died with a bad logic board.  Physcially damaged electronics can fail later, as cycles of heating and cooling in the course of everyday use cause cycles of expansion and contraction (in metal especially), which stresses damaged components and eventually breaks delicate connections.
You say that "it cannot find [the hard drive]."  If the hard drive simply doesn't show up in something like Disk Utility, that's a hardware issue.  Either the connection has been broken or the drive itself has died.  You also say that the magsafe connector won't charge it, which again is an indication of hardware issues.  (You could try resetting the SMC, though with the other problems, I wouldn't have any confidence that that would help.)
To my knowledge it has not been badly handled.
The key there is "to your knowledge."  It's a given that something happened to break the screen.
I took it into apple and they said it would be £400 to repair.
Was that the total, to fix all problems, or just for the screen?  It seems like the right price just to replace the screen.  Keep in mind that, if I'm right, the total bill to repair everything else will be considerably higher.