[iBook] Apple Care benefits?

[Gary]

On Mar 23, 2006, at 9:02 AM, Laura Bruce wrote:

> Hi there. It is coming up on the anniversary of my iBook purchase,  
> and hence, the deadline to purchase Apple Care. My iBook has been  
> trouble-free, and now I am wondering if I should bother.
>
> Would love to hear the pros and cons re same.
	
	I have bought AppleCare for every Mac product. It has paid off  
handsomely.
	For one thing, extended AppleCare also includes phone support and  
that was often all I needed to get something working right again.  
Without AppleCare, each phone call would cost a great deal per call.  
My G3 iMac is still working going into its fifth year because of  
AppleCare service it got during it's first three years of life,  
including a new video board. Broken clasps on my iBook G3 were  
covered by AppleCare and before that a new hard drive  on my  
clamshell iBook.
	I even have the two-year AppleCare on my iPod mini.

Gary