Repeated logic board failures on 2018 MacBook Pro

Thank you for the thoughtful, informative response and the answer to why the miniscule number of us that have the unfortunate experience of a failed Mac should take heart in the reliability of Apple's MacBook Pro. It also explains why with that many sales Apple will not care about such a small number of failures and whether or not they might lose a few of us that may depart because of that experience. Your numbers illustrate why if it was as bad as I was suggesting then there would be much more news about it.

I will admit though that until I was researching this personal logic board problem did I learn about failures that Apple did step up and help out computer owners. I guess there was a larger number of those problems.

If I had the financial resources that Apple executives have then taking the chance on getting mine repaired or buying a new one would be easy. Unfortunately for me a $1700 computer is not an insignificant part of my annual income. Part of the reason I have purchased Macs since my first Quadra 700 for all these years is to have a computer that will last and an operating system that has proven reliable too. Until this, my only experience with a failed Mac, I have been an evangelist for Mac. I see that the few people I may have coaxed into the Mac camp was an insignificant number of new sales.

Of course I never believed I was making a dent in helping the sales of Macs back then. I just thought my fellow PC users should know how good Macs were because I cared. If they gave Macs a chance then they would see just how good they were compared to the problems they were having with their PC. I can say that all of the problems were the operating system and not the computer itself.

My comments in this forum have been for the same reason, hopefully to help someone including selfishly myself. I would love for someone to tell us why the logic boards have failed in this particular model but I guess according to the numbers you provided you might be saying it is so insignificant nobody at Apple has even investigated the reason for the failures.

That at least is something and perhaps explains what happened with mine. It was when I was opening it out of sleep mode that it did not respond and sent me down the rabbit hole of trying to learn what happened. I really appreciate you following up with that piece of news. That provides hope Apple already has a firmware update that addresses whatever may have allowed the computer to overheat while in sleep mode.

Thank you!

@donnie165 replied a possible reason for the dead logic board and I am grasping at straws but it gives me hope that if there is a very minute number of logic board failures for that reason that it is something addressable with a firmware update. If so, then it is hopeful that replacing the logic board and insuring we have the latest updates will insure a long life for this version of MacBook Pro.

I had no doubt that Apple investigates failures and that it would be thorough. Based on the sales numbers you provided it may have been only one day or one week's production that had a problem. Perhaps most of the problem MacBook Pros failed in the first year under the normal warranty and were taken care of, no need to recall. Another bunch may have failed within the Applecare warranty and were taken care of. Only the outliers like myself that because of our previous experience with Mac reliability did not spend the extra money for the Applecare warranty are upset.

Thank you for supporting Apple's reputation and giving me the confidence to repair or replace my MacBook Pro. Knowing Apple would not hide or shrink from responsibility for a known problem proves that I just had bad luck this time. I'll be sure to follow up and not disappear from the Apple Discussions.

In closing my older 2015 MacBook Pro has been absolutely solid and why I trust what @Grant Bennet-Alder says.