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<div>I respectfully disagree with that statement.</div><div><br class="webkit-block-placeholder"></div><div>when Mac gear fails and you are outside of the 90-day warranty, and without apple care, you then pay whatever rate Apple decides to charge you for the parts and service.</div><div><br class="webkit-block-placeholder"></div><div>Since the mother board basically IS the computer, you can expect to pay a pretty penny for that, plus whatever hourly rate the procedure costs.</div><div><br class="webkit-block-placeholder"></div><div>while it's easy to compare the applecare cost against the cost of a computer which is relatively inexpensive to purchase, that purchase price is NOT an accurate predictor of the potential cost to have that computer REPAIRED.</div><div><br></div><div>A technician who charges $65/hr for computer repairs is not going to lower her/his rate simply because you bought an inexpensive Mac. Same goes for the prices of components. </div><div><br class="webkit-block-placeholder"></div><div>the economies of scale which enable the sale of inexpensive computers do not transfer to the repair of individual computers.</div><div><br class="webkit-block-placeholder"></div><div>zc</div><div><br class="webkit-block-placeholder"></div><div><br class="webkit-block-placeholder"></div><br><div><div>On Apr 16, 2009, at 9:52 AM, Zane H. Healy wrote:</div><br class="Apple-interchange-newline"><blockquote type="cite"><p style="margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px"><font face="Andale Mono" size="2" style="font: 10.0px Andale Mono">When something like Applecare costs 1/3 the price you really have to</font></p> <p style="margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px"><font face="Andale Mono" size="2" style="font: 10.0px Andale Mono">question its value.<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span></font></p> </blockquote></div><br></body></html>