Why did my Macbook pro and iMac both crash and burn up within two weeks of each other? Does Apple have a secret kill switch?
Replacing them ain’t cheap.
Never had such a thing happen in years of managing Macs of all kinds. In sixteen years and hundreds of Macs, we've had only two go glitzy on us. One had a hard drive go bad and the other was just a few months ago was a brand new 27 inch 5K iMac that was a lemon. . . it was a serial killer of logic boards. Apple finally just swapped it completely after it killed the fourth logic board in as many weeks!
What do you mean "both crash and burn?" Did they die completely? How? What year were they made, version of OS X were they running?
“Statistics mean nothing when it happens to you.”
They can do that if you piss on them! Anyway, do you have drinks near the keyboard? My daughter fried her Macbook when her 2-year-old spilled a drink into it. She sent the Macbook to me, and I fixed a component on the keyboard, easy fix (even then, keyboard replacements are under $100). These machines are rugged and last a long time if not abused, and repair is cheap if you do it yourself. My wife just upgraded her ten-year-old Macbook earlier this year, it still works fine but she wanted features on the latest machines. A neighbor brought his busted Macbook Pro to me, he was going to toss it in the garbage but then thought I might want it. I easily fixed it with a $20 part. His son had broken a jack in a port, then jammed another jack in which fried a part. Easy fix, and my neighbor is back in business. I have found that most problems are user-caused.