I also wonder whether the failure rate of devices with no (or few)
moving parts is very high. My wife's old iPhone3G is still kicking along
after more than three years and numerous drops although she is itching
for the iPhone5 when it comes out. Some stuff doesn't die out, it just
gets obsolete. Like my old PowerMac g4 which is soon to hit 10 years and
just keeps on working. Makes a nice host for time machine hard drives
and keeps my basement office toasty.
CB
On 9/30/11 1:28 PM, Joan Alice Maria Gibson, Esquire wrote:
I definitely recommend it! My iMac G4 was repaired under it in 2007
when it failed. Apple did a top-notch job and returned it to me jolly
quick. in 2009 it was destroyed by a dozen lightning strikes on my
property; destroying the power supply and logic board. Since it was
then out of warranty, it now sits atop my stand-up stand, as I have no
where to store it.
Since then, I bought a MacBook Pro with Leopard and bought AppleCare
for it. This year I sent it back as the warranty was about to expire;
they sending a box overnight via FedEx, and the replaced the optical
drive … CD/DVD ROM and SuperDrive, network card, Airport card, logic
board, and Airport card [did not know it was bad], and returned it to
me overnight
via FedEx. I am on it now. Purchased another MacBook Pro on eBay [won
the bid] for $677.00 including shipping with a 500 GB HD [my original
has a 160 GB HD]. They even re-installed my third-party software back
onto it! It now works better than ever! I'm a real happy camper now!
I also get AppleCare for my iPods! None have failed yet; but, it
surely is worth it just for the no-cost phone help!
JG
On Fri, Sep 30, 2011 at 10:09 AM, Chris Blouch <cblo...@aol.com
<mailto:cblo...@aol.com>> wrote:
Applecare, like insurance, is hedging your bets. Could you handle
having to come up with replacement cost if your gadget were to
fail? Apple is betting that more often than not you'll never need
AppleCare, or at least the issues will be few enough to cover
their costs. For me, for my iPhone, I don't plan to do my usual
5-6 year life cycle so I didn't do Applecare. While I wouldn't
want to pay out to buy another one it is something I could
probably scrape the money together for. Not so much with a laptop.
CB
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