At 6:30 PM -0700 on 10/3/05, Jon Warms spoke about Re: [X4U] Applecare thusly: >How old is the mini? Aren't all minis still covered by the >one year hardware warranty? I purchased a mini the day they were announced, as juggling equipment around the family suggested a new box of some sort was needed. Thus it was just over a year old when the hard disk died, and it died the day before I was to be out of town in the woods for a week, so there was no down time for me at all, and I had a back-up that was only a day old. Sometimes life is goooood. -- I am a Christian Democrat. Jesus Christ was a Jew, and a Liberal.