Warranty replacement - at least here in Germany - is *entirely* up to the manufacturer.

I know that Apple here only classifies units as DOA and thus replaceable by a factory-new unit if they break and are returned within the first ten days.

And it's quite possible that you DID get a new unit. The peripheral stuff - the packaging, the power adapter, documentation - were not broken and did not need replacing.

It would make perfect sense, when replacing a defective unit, to TEST the replacement unit to see if it exhibits the same problem, no? Prints get on things when they're tested.

-s*