<html><body style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space; ">When I bought a pair of 17" MBP's last summer, I acquired them off of the refurbished site at Apple, and because they are laptops, bought the three-year extended service plan. I felt that for what I wanted and needed, it was a pretty good deal - and I got a pair of the 30" Displays, too (I buy "new" equipment about every six or eight years - whether I need it or not - going back about twenty years!).<div><br></div><div>Whether you felt that you needed the service plan or not is debatable, particularly for the iMac; I see they have several 24" iMacs on the site ranging from $1199-1599 depending mostly on the processing speed.</div><div><br></div><div>Dave Iverson</div><div><br><div><div>On Mar 13, 2009, at 10:26 AM, Luis Meleiro wrote:</div><br class="Apple-interchange-newline"><blockquote type="cite"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="border-collapse: separate; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 12px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: normal; orphans: 2; text-align: auto; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-border-horizontal-spacing: 0px; -webkit-border-vertical-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-decorations-in-effect: none; -webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; "><div style="margin-top: 4px; margin-left: 4px; line-height: normal; font-variant: normal; margin-right: 4px; margin-bottom: 1px; "><div>Dave: You are absolutely right. I guess I'm going paranoid with this. Anyway, the iMac I was offered (- 200 Eur) is OFF. Now my chances are only to buy the new model (FW800) or... consider the 24-inch.</div><div> </div><div>I need to earn more money!!! ;-)</div><div> </div><div>LM<br><br></div><div style="margin-left: 15px; margin-top: 0px; border-left-style: solid; border-left-width: 1px; border-left-color: rgb(5, 5, 5); margin-right: 0px; background-color: rgb(243, 243, 243); margin-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 7px; "><div><div> </div><div>>>>On Fri, 13 de Mar de 2009 at 14:01, David Iverson <<a href="mailto:nebdave@me.com">nebdave@me.com</a>> wrote:</div><div> </div><div>... I guess I am less disturbed by it than you are, but I am not in graphics...</div></div><div><div><br></div><div>Dave Iverson<br></div></div></div><br><div><br class="webkit-block-placeholder"></div>_______________________________________________<br>Cube mailing list<br><a href="mailto:Cube@listserver.themacintoshguy.com">Cube@listserver.themacintoshguy.com</a><br><a href="http://listserver.themacintoshguy.com/mailman/listinfo/cube">http://listserver.themacintoshguy.com/mailman/listinfo/cube</a></div></span></blockquote></div><br></div></body></html>