Old AppleCare

[DavidS]

I just successfully used an unused AppleCare code that I bought at a CompUSA going out of business sale for my wife’s new MacBook Air. They went out of business in 2012. I was surprised that Apple would honor if, since they now call it AppleCare+. I had to call AppleCare for them to be able to apply it, but I got no push back at all.

[hal]

The old applecare is still an option, but I think you have to call them to buy it.

I once used a 'Macbook' APP retail box on a 2010/11 13" macbook pro. The folks at the apple store had to call the mothership, but they got it to work.

[GGD]

What sort of coverage did you wind up with? The old standard AppleCare coverage (without accidental damage incidents), or the new AppleCare+ coverage?

Using Apple's terminology, a 7 year old product from 2012 would be considered Vintage, and unsupported. Glad that they honored it.

[Speedy]

I have a 20 or so year old box for a PowerBook. I wonder if they will let it be used for a MacBook Pro? It is a French Canadian version which couldn’t be used in the USA then but a few years later any AppleCare was treated the same in both the USA and Canada. I’ll have to give it a try next time I buy a new notebook, if I ever do again.

[NewtonMP2100]

....so very old things....have uses.....???

....good news for us here.....in this 'old' forum filled with old.....

[Gilbert]

My guess is it is the old standard AppleCare. The opposite of putting AppleCare+ on a machine that was originally sold before AppleCare+ was available can also happen. I bought a refurb 2015 MacBook Pro Retina in 2017 from Apple. I purchased AppleCare for it not realizing it was AppleCare+.

A couple of weeks ago, I brought the laptop in to Apple as it wasn't booting up and the Genius was surprised to see it had AppleCare+. He said he didn't realize it was possible and said I uncovered a loophole by buying a refurb machine and getting AppleCare+ on a machine that was sold before AppleCare+ was offered.

GGD wrote:
What sort of coverage did you wind up with? The old standard AppleCare coverage (without accidental damage incidents), or the new AppleCare+ coverage?

Using Apple's terminology, a 7 year old product from 2012 would be considered Vintage, and unsupported. Glad that they honored it.

[cbelt3]

That is brilliant ! I bought one of those boxes 17 years ago at CompUSA for $5 because it was the 'old version' (like... Whiskey tango foxtrot ?). No issues applying it to my wife's Macbook 4 years later.

I bet the 20 year old code will still work.

[DavidS]

cbelt3 wrote:
That is brilliant ! I bought one of those boxes 17 years ago at CompUSA for $5 because it was the 'old version' (like... Whiskey tango foxtrot ?). No issues applying it to my wife's Macbook 4 years later.

I bet the 20 year old code will still work.

Yes, it is the older AppleCare and not AC+.

I actually bought 4. This one was the last. I think I paid $50 each for them. Used one for my 2012 MacBook Pro, one for my wife's 2014 MacBook Air, and sold the other on eBay.