MacBook Air keeps dying after using the wrong charger – anyone else experienced this?

Hi everyone,

We bought our MacBook Air in June and everything was fine until we went on holiday. My husband accidentally took the USB-C charger from our old MacBook Air instead of the new MagSafe one. After a couple of days, the MacBook stopped charging.

The shop said the motherboard was dead and replaced it. A few weeks later, we went on another trip… and he did it again 😅 — same old charger, and the same thing happened! This time the Wi-Fi also stopped working, and when he plugged in my iPhone, the MacBook crashed completely. My brother has the same MacBook as we do and can use this usb charger without any issue so I don’t even know if it’s related

Apple now says they’ll repair it but won’t replace it.

We’ve basically paid €1400 for a laptop that dies every few weeks.

Has anyone else experienced something like this? Any advice (besides banning my husband from charging it 😅)?