Your case would have much more weight if similarly equipped 2012 Macbook Pros with discrete GPUs were failing at the same rate as their 2011 counterparts.
My case is to use the right tool for the job. If you're gaming on a laptop, you're getting a subpar experience anyway. Unless you're also lugging around an additional keyboard, mouse, and headphones. Which makes the whole laptop convenience a moot point. Or are you really arguing 2012 Macbooks don't get hot when gaming? I don't buy that.
>> Or are you really arguing 2012 Macbooks don't get hot when gaming?
No, I'm saying that the 2012s aren't getting so hot that there have even been remotely same degree of hardware failures as with the 2011 models.
My 2011 MBP just died last week (already replaced the logic board once under AppleCare). I never really played any games on it, so the failure had less to do with the discrete GPU itself than the CPU causing the overheating issues.
The logic boards clearly have a design defect in that they can't handle the heat that the computer runs at under non-gaming load. So contrary to what you said, I think I do have a "license to complain when your Macbook overheats and dies".
