When you pay a premium price for a high end product, I would hope the reliability would be better. When you buy an expensive Windows machine, I think they can sometimes have more problems than the cheaper ones. I’m kind of surprised Apple doesn’t come with a better warranty. Of course, sometimes they will fix out of warranty stuff if there’s a known manufacturing defect.
Actually, they will fix things more than two years out of warranty sometimes. I had a problem with a hard drive on a G4 Powerbook (wow, that was a long time ago), and they sent me a shipping box, prepaid, replaced the HD, and shipped it back. No charge.
I have had Macs since 1984!
YMMV!