TS5296 Is there a corresponding fix for the early 2013 model MBP retina?

This update refused to install, and since my mac's keyboard stops responding quite often, it's becoming a serious problem... getting to the point where the machine is essentially unusuable.
It's now basically an expensive paperweight, because a machine that you have to either nap or reboot every 20 minutes, especially one still under waranty, is simply unacceptible.
Talk about buyer's remorse... this has been by far the worst machine I've ever had in over 20 years.

This cropped up on my wife's late 2009 model 27" iMac, too.  Random freezes were encountered, unable to identify cause for months, then one day it started to become unable to complete a normal boot.  Tech Tool Deluxe was the only direct indication as far as diagnostics are concerned.  I've NEVER been abvle to get Apple's hardware diagnostic to run from the cloud, and we fianlly got it on a Techs' bench, AHT showed nothing wrong.  As you said, Safe boot is the only way to get into the system, and performance under 10.8.5 is glacial.
Now the kicker - we DID have AppleCare, and this phase of the MXM graphics demise hit within 4 or 5 months of AppleCare expiration.  There's no longer a flat-rate repair option, Apple doesn't have any stock of the video board to sell as a replacement part (was $169, or $179 w/no exchange) and even refurbs of this paltry (512MB VRAM) board can hit $300.  I know Mac users have become 2nd-class citizens in Apple's business universe, but we're now looking at sub-42 month lifespans for hardware?  At $2k for a machine that lacks touchscreen option, that's out of line.

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