[Ti] [P1] AppleCare

[Kynan Shook]

Were something to happen to your PowerBook, you can always cancel and 
get most of your money back.  The Terms and Conditions state that you 
can get 100% back for the first 30 days minus the cost of any services 
provided.  After that, you get back a pro rata amount (minus the cost 
of any services provided) minus the lesser of $25 or 10%.

The terms and conditions I refer to apply only to the US, Canada, 
Brazil, and Mexico.  Your local document may vary, though it is true 
that anybody with AppleCare on a portable Mac now has worldwide 
coverage; this also applies retroactively to plans that were bought 
before this was the standard policy.

Anyway, the one benefit you *do* get with Applecare is that extra 9 
months of phone support beyond the first 90 days.  I know a LOT of 
people that could really use that...

"Robert Nicholson" <robert at elastica.com> writes:
> I own an 800 mhz Tibook and I'm still in my first year of warranty but 
> I've
> asked about Applecare and I may decide to buy it after May next year 
> when my
> initial year runs out. However, I do not understand why anybody would 
> buy it
> at time of purchase because. If you lose or break your machine due to 
> misuse
> you cannot transfer the applecare (at least that's what I've been 
> told) to a
> new computer. So why buy something that doesn't benefit you now but 
> wait
> until you are just about to run out of warranty like what you have 
> chosen to
> do.
>


Kynan Shook
kshook at mac.com
http://homepage.mac.com/kshook/index.html