Buying advice: Applecare warranty with low end powerbook?
Hi all, one of my roommates is really impressed with my other roommate's new 15 Al book and wants to make the switch and go Mac (yeah!). Only one question remains: should he get the extended Applecare warranty for the low end iBook. The iBook is basically $1000 and the warranty is $250. He debates if this is worth it. Normally, I would say that the applecare warranty is just a given for a laptop (peace of mind, etc.), but given the cheapness of the iBook, it is alot of money to pay for peace of mind. What do all of you think?
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I'd say it's worth it for the piece of mind. Laptops have about a one in five chance of dying per year (across the industry - actually, on the PC side it's 1 in 4), so three years of protection is worthwhile insurance.
If the cost seems high, that probably reflects the fact that iBooks get banged around more than any other Apple product except perhaps for the iPod.
BTW, this is what I've done for the past several years with my laptops. Near the end of the warranty period, I'd check out the going prices for the computer, figure in the cost of additional applecare and weigh other non-specifics and decide what I wanted to do. Personally I'd never be without applecare on a notebook. They're just too damned expensive to fix if something goes wrong.
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