AppleCare: Thumbs Up or Down?

[ucfgrad93]

I bought Apple Care on both my iMac and MBP, hopefully I'll never have to use it.

 

[Bengt77]

yes--but did you ever actually have to USE it?

Doesn't matter, in my opinion. With AppleCare, you buy reassurance. Somebody on these forums once said something like this: Without AppleCare, you constantly hope your computer doesn't break, while with AppleCare, you hope it does break.

I bought Apple Care on both my iMac and MBP, hopefully I'll never have to use it.

Exactly. Point proven.

 

[marbles]

Can be handy if you have a hardware problem after the initial 1 year warranty but they can be difficult to deal with (google!) your mileage may vary of course .

rj

 

[Davy.Shalom]

Oh god. Apple care is necessary when buying ANYTHING from apple. Their products are great, and work amazing well...for a time. Everything breaks at some point, but apple just seems to break more frequently. Anyway, their products are delicate, and even treating something well will not keep it from needing the warranty. It is a small price to pay once you consider this situation-your superdrive breaks in your macbook, and the warranty is out (the one year warranty) and you have no apple care. Apple says they will repair it, then smacks you with a 300 dollar bill. Then your monitor backlight goes out...another large sum.-

IT IS DEFINATELY WORTH IT.

 

[JoeG4]

Applecare is an extended warranty, NOT insurance - it only covers the stuff the OEM 1 year warranty covers. Therefore, technically you shouldn't buy it expecting that they'll replace the hard drive 2 years in because you dropped the computer (though, it's not impossible to talk them into it anyway!)

Likewise, I doubt during the 1st year that Apple will give you better treatment because you bought the warranty (they never did for me and in my family I've purchased uh.. 7 macs now?)

It's still nice, but a homeowners policy rider may make more sense, those can cover almost anything!

On another note, it depends on your tolerance - functionally, I've yet to have an Apple product die on me, and that included my 7 year old QS G4 (which is probably still in operation today). Cosmetically, hahahahahahahahah yeah whatever.

My PBG4 got tons of use (and my macbook currently does), the only damage to them is cosmetic.

 

[hexonxonx]

I won't ever waste my money on an extended warranty on anything electronic. Since 1993 when I bought a real computer, I have never had a single computer ever fail on me. Only thing to ever fail was a drive after several years. The iMac is nearly a year old.

I now have a Mac Pro 8 core and an iMac allong with two recent HP notebooks. Never considered a warranty for any of them.

 

[UTclassof89]

Doesn't matter, in my opinion. With AppleCare, you buy reassurance. Somebody on these forums once said something like this: Without AppleCare, you constantly hope your computer doesn't break, while with AppleCare, you hope it does break.


Exactly. Point proven.

Those are both idiotic arguments. No one hopes their computer breaks, and of course it matters if you use something you spend your money on.

 

[Airforcekid]

It been worth it to me. I would get it after the first year is up.