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Apple care yes or no?
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I have had AppleCare coverage continuously for the past 7 years and have never in all that time talked to an Apple tech who had a foreign accent.
wow, apple seems to be having same isues over and over again. After spending all this money, you kind of have to get the warranty if you want to keep using your maching, I guess the price really is not 1199. but 1450. with apple care.
Hardware is by far most likely to fail within the first year. Extended warranties are huge profit centres for companies for a reason.
I have never purchased an extended warranty for any of my electronics, and never needed them. My last laptop took 4 years of rough handling, and even a couple spills without any failures.
I did not purchase apple care with my macbook pro (early 2009). So far so good. If it fails on me within the next couple years, I wont be dropping $2000 on an apple product that's for sure.
It's a gamble, but I wouldn't recommended it, especially as apple does not cover accidental damage.
Either way: BACK UP REGULARLY!
I vote yes to Applecare on apple notebook models. Notebook computers tend to get rougher handling and are moved about a lot and in my experience have a higher failure rate than desktops.
I had to go through the same decision process as you when I bought my MBP. No one knew at the time, but I ended up with the 8600 GT chip Lemon series MBP, and have had my Logicboard replaced once already. In addition I have had a new superdrive and a new battery so applecare was easily worth it in my case, as much for the convenience as anything else.
I wonder if mac notebooks are less reliable than other pcs. Would be interesting to see some accurate and balanced statisitics on the subject.
I had to go through the same decision process as you when I bought my MBP. No one knew at the time, but I ended up with the 8600 GT chip Lemon series MBP, and have had my Logicboard replaced once already. In addition I have had a new superdrive and a new battery so applecare was easily worth it in my case, as much for the convenience as anything else.
I wonder if mac notebooks are less reliable than other pcs. Would be interesting to see some accurate and balanced statisitics on the subject.
Any potential buyer of any form of insurance, including an extended warranty, must first decide whether he is welling to undertake the risk of the loss himself. If he is, it is called self-insuring. If you are comfortable with the idea of bearing the costs of repairing a MBP during the first 3 years you own it, then by all means avoid AppleCare. But if you are like me and not only don't want to bear the risk of such losses yourself but also find Apple's telephone support to be useful, AppleCare is the way to go.wow, apple seems to be having same isues over and over again. After spending all this money, you kind of have to get the warranty if you want to keep using your maching, I guess the price really is not 1199. but 1450. with apple care.
The point is, whether or not to buy AppleCare is a personal decision. Neither choice is wrong. Don't think that you will have made a mistake in buying AppleCare if your MBP doesn't require repairs in the first three years you have it that would have cost you more than the price you paid for AppleCare. You shouldn't buy AppleCare because you expect to make money from it. Instead you should buy it if you want the piece of mind that knowing you are avoiding the risk of having to pay much more than the price of extended AppleCare coverage in the form of repair costs if you don't buy it.