"And you blue, have a vivid imagination. PC Labs, computer that are actually used rarely have more than a three year life span, even then then, only with considerable maintenance. "
My sister still uses her laptop she bought in the summer of 2002. Sure the battery has maybe a 10 minute runtime but that's actually better than my complately drained Compaq battery. I don't think she ever used her laptop running on batteries at all.
I too think you have a vivid imagination as demonstrated by your fictional scenarios about the batteries failing, Apple's failures to service their customers, the made up pricing of said batteries when the actual prices are easily discovered with a little research, fears of Apple Genius Bar employees being so interested in the contents of your hard drive that they will spend valuable time combing through it.
Too many anti-Mac/anti-Apple trolls will say anything to make a point. It has been my experience that most laptops of the 2002 vintage are usually dead... but a few are plugging away several sigmas away from the statistical mean failure time. Laptops that are actually carried and opened and closed frequently are among the most likely to fail... with the hinges and the ribbon cable to the screen being the most likely culprits.
That is still very mild compared to some of the invective Apple users have been on the receiving end of.