To be honest, I expect something that I have treated with respect to last forever.
My Macbook is currently being repaired for the lid closing causing case crack. Whilst it is there, the inverter is being replaced because its causing the backlight to flicker and its making a buzzing noise. This laptop is 2.5 years old and has been babied all its life.
To me I find that 2.5 years is too short for this machine to be having problems.
I'm currently using a 20" iMac G4 as my workhorse until I get my laptop back. This machine is pretty rock solid for its age (only issue being an LCD persistent image problem). I expect my machines to last 5 years before potentially requiring a replacement HDD or something like that. I expect the screens/logicboards to run for 20 years at least.
I'm finding that my older machines are still running beautifully. Its the newer Intel ones which seem to be the flakiest (Rev. A Macbook, iMac C2E 2.8GHz).
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