AppleCare+ price for iMac Pro remains unchanged at $169 despite new machine's cost
Apple is making the decision for customers acquiring the iMac Pro to pick up AppleCare with their purchase easier, by keeping the price of the extended warranty service the same as for the iMac despite the increase in hardware cost.
According to the Apple online store's AppleCare+ for Mac page, the link to buy the service for the iMac Pro takes users to the page for the iMac, rather than a separate listing for the Pro product. It appears that Apple is equating both the iMac and iMac Pro for support purposes, with the associated costs of AppleCare+ kept identical for the two product ranges.
AppleCare+ for iMac and the iMac Pro costs $169, and can be used to extend the support coverage to three years, up from the standard one-year limited warranty and 90 days of complementary telephone support offered with all Mac purchases. AppleCare+ also includes coverage for two instances of accidental damage, with service fees of $99 for screen or external enclosure damage and $299 for other types of damage, excluding tax.
AppleInsider checked other regional versions of Apple's AppleCare pages to see if the policy is the same in other regions, and discovered it to be the case. The online stores in the United Kingdom, Germany, Canada, and France all direct the AppleCare+ links for the iMac Pro to the iMac equivalent, indicating it to be company policy.
Notably, this means AppleCare+ for the iMac Pro is significantly cheaper than the coverage for the Mac Pro, which costs $249 in the United States with the same excess fees and service features.
While the cheap price for extra coverage is highly useful, it is possible Apple could introduce a separate AppleCare+ warranty specifically for the iMac Pro in the future, or even increase the price to counter the higher cost of components used inside the iMac Pro.
Sales of the iMac Pro commenced on Thursday, with models starting from $4,999.
According to the Apple online store's AppleCare+ for Mac page, the link to buy the service for the iMac Pro takes users to the page for the iMac, rather than a separate listing for the Pro product. It appears that Apple is equating both the iMac and iMac Pro for support purposes, with the associated costs of AppleCare+ kept identical for the two product ranges.
AppleCare+ for iMac and the iMac Pro costs $169, and can be used to extend the support coverage to three years, up from the standard one-year limited warranty and 90 days of complementary telephone support offered with all Mac purchases. AppleCare+ also includes coverage for two instances of accidental damage, with service fees of $99 for screen or external enclosure damage and $299 for other types of damage, excluding tax.
AppleInsider checked other regional versions of Apple's AppleCare pages to see if the policy is the same in other regions, and discovered it to be the case. The online stores in the United Kingdom, Germany, Canada, and France all direct the AppleCare+ links for the iMac Pro to the iMac equivalent, indicating it to be company policy.
Notably, this means AppleCare+ for the iMac Pro is significantly cheaper than the coverage for the Mac Pro, which costs $249 in the United States with the same excess fees and service features.
While the cheap price for extra coverage is highly useful, it is possible Apple could introduce a separate AppleCare+ warranty specifically for the iMac Pro in the future, or even increase the price to counter the higher cost of components used inside the iMac Pro.
Sales of the iMac Pro commenced on Thursday, with models starting from $4,999.
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You may hate on Apple's closed-computer business model all you want but I think it works for an awful lot of ordinary consumers who don't have the technical skills. I'm certainly not 100% behind Apple's decision to not allow somewhat skilled consumers to upgrade their own computers. I'm just saying that it's my choice to stick with Apple because I can afford to do it without constantly griping. I'm not going to be building a custom-Windows PC because I don't have a real reason to. Although I enjoy looking at custom gaming machines in all their glory, that doesn't mean I'd want to use one on a daily basis. I don't do gaming anyway so I have no need for maximum frame rates. All that custom water-cooling and RGB lighting are sweet, but I'd lose interest in that stuff rather quickly.
A base model iMac Pro with some additional memory and AppleCare honestly seems like a fine deal to me and it will keep me satisfied for years as long as it runs as reliably as the day I bought it.
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If you've been paying attention these last 20 yrs, you would have noticed that mobile devices have more expensive warranties than Apple's desktops. There are much smaller parts inside the MacBook Pro and like others have said, are more prone to breakage and replacement because of the environments laptops get put in. Some people are not so nice to their stuff.
Applecare is no different to insurance, it is just lots of numbers calculating the possibility, and spend out the cost among large group of people. The unchanged price would means Apple is happy with the quality of its build component wont break down within 3 years.