dug 
Like more specifically how the video card seems to have died one month out of warrantee (grrr). While it is almost amusing how entirely disabled I’ve been since loosing the little thing, I thought y’all might be a little bored of me moaning about big nasty corporates screwing the little guy with their onerous contracts and dodgy, overpriced products.
So instead, the good news
Looks like the logic board fault is an acknowledged Apple manufacturing fault and they’re mending it free of charge :-)