03-12-2009, 01:13 AM
Black wrote:
Mini-hijack here:
I think Applecare for a laptop is a no-brainer, but I paid $949 for a refurb white 20" going on a year ago-- is Applecare particularly crucial for one of these, in anyone's opinion?
I got AppleCare on the 20" I bought in 2006, but I haven't needed it, and it's getting ready to have its third birthday.
Did you use a credit card with extended warranty? If so, I'd just go with that, unless someone pipes up with a problem they know about with the particular model you got. If I could predict the future, I would have saved the money I spent on AC for both the iMac and this PB. The only Mac I had to have repaired after the first year was the Pismo. Naturally I didn't have AC on it, but American Express was very prompt about sending me a check to pay for repairs. (And then it kept going for years without any more trouble.)