My macbook pro was defective from the beginning. what to do?

I bought my macbook pro about 4 yrs ago in my college year, and right after I found out there was some weird noise being made while the laptop was running.
And compared to my school mates' macbook, mine got easily heated up and had a loud noise while running.
So I took it to my school tech department and they said since its warranty is effective, why don't I go to apples, and so I did.
At first, at the genius bar, a technician said it will cost me 400 and i was struck with shock ..
fortunately, the technician found out that the laptop was defectively manufactured from the factory from the beginning and I was free of the fixing charge.
However, my macbook pro's got a new problem. The screen goes black while running. I can hear the computer running but the screen is total pitch black.
I went to apple store again to the genius bar to ask for the fixing fee.- It was 300 bucks for fixing it and they said there was a problem with
the computer's logic board whatever. I bought the laptop for 1200$ and they are asking me for 1/4 of the price the laptop.
The genius bar asked me if I ever dropped the laptop or left it somewhere near water whatever. I HAVE NEVER DONE THAT and the laptop was
sitting on my loveseat in my room and when I came back from work and turned it on to get on internet...it didn't turn on.
What am I supposed to do?
I am so upset bc I have a paper to turn in for the beginning fo the next month, but since I can't afford to fix the computer, I am totally at a loss.
I bought the laptop at Bestbuy when there was the event going on, which if you buy a mac, it comes with an ipod 2nd gen.
When I bought it, there was a lil scratch like thin on top of the cover of the laptop, but I just thought like
it will get a scratch while using it anyway and i just let it go and I bought a cute plastic cover for that laptop.
If I knew that that was something like a defective product, I wouldn't have bought it or exchanged it with a new one.
Where do I complain about this? whom do I talk to? why does apple distribute defective products to customers and make us to pay so much money to fix it after the warranty is done?
Apple should be responsible for this.
For someone like me, who's a poor student who can't get anymoney from anywhere (I am being supported by my church), what am I supposed to do?
I want a responsible answer from Apple.
or if anyone knows how I should deal with this, please answer me.
I am really at a loss and desperate due to my financial situation. Thank you.

I had a very similar issue. I am not sure which machine you have. I purchased 2 MacBook Pro's mid 2010 2.66ghz. One is dead the other failing. I am with you, you shouldn't have to purchase an extended warranty on a premium product. I have seen a lot of posts on this subject. Seattle Rex took Apple to court last year over the same issue and won in small claims court.
http://www.seattlerex.com/seattle-rex-vs-apple-the-verdict-is-in/
I am sure a class action lawsuit is not far off. It is fraudulent to sell a product that is known to be defective. I purchased my laptops from Apple.com in 2011 after the testing program had already started. From what I can deduce the logicboard and Lion do not get along. CNET has several articles on this issue. Here is the notice from Apple that is very hard to find.
http://support.apple.com/kb/TS4088
Here is an article from CNET
http://reviews.cnet.com/8301-13727_7-57586703-263/graphics-related-crashes-resur face-for-mid-2010-macbook-pro-systems/
Maverick is supposed to help but for me that is a day late and $4000 dollars short.
If you do bring your laptop in, print out the notice. The guys and gals at the Genius Bar will not know about this issue. They tried to sell me a new MLB too as well as trying to wipe my hard drive. Good luck, I hope this helps.

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