Apple response ; “should have taken out apple care.”

How long does Apple Care Last?

How do you retain a demand in the market for desirable commodities, such as computers?

Interestingly I like to know who underites “Apple Care” ?

Hope you have better luck with the new machine. It does look very sexy!
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I have mixed feelings about Apple due to their expensive upgrade paths, poor treatment of developers, and their relationship with AT&T whom I loathe. However, I agree the alternatives are harder to use! My laptop before this one was an Acer and that started having issues at 10 months and died at 14 months.

I don’t like this whole culture of disposable products where it’s too expensive to fix anything.

Think that is very good service here in Bulgaria.
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I did upgrade the Memory to 4 Gig, that helps a lot to take the strain off of the hard drive, but the battery on this new white macbook is very bad, worse that my old Macbook with the external battery.

Since they went to Intel processors their product quality has dropped.

I mean the graphics and speed is amazing comparing to my old macbook I bought in Jordan, but the battery is a big disturbance.

I think through their software updates they throw in bogus-ware to slow the older computers down so people will buy new one, just my personal theory through.
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BUT I never trust the “technicians” at the Apple store – they are not always right. There are many things that can make a laptop not boot up, some as simple as a damaged power adapter that drains power instead of charging it – you may want to do a bit of research to find out various causes before you spend any money on fixing it. Some of the more simple repairs can be done yourself if it’s the pre-unibody model (the older ones you can open up, the new unibody ones you can’t).

I do think that $300 is not bad for a repair, but when you think about it, that’s what you’d have spent on the Apple Care. I own 4 Macs and have always paid for the Apple Care and to be honest it’s paid for itself a few times (on my desktop MacPro I’ve had to replace the video card – twice!).

Before all you Apple-haters out there start crowing, it’s not just Macs but all computers that are built to last only a few short years – because the components (like logic boards) are all built where they can be made cheaper, and people want cheaper these days. Especially in this economy, computer companies feel the pressure to pinch pennies.

Since technology changes so rapidly these days – and a lot of people ARE willing to buy new computers as technology changes, they have to keep the cost down in order to stay competitive and sell new computers.

Same thing with cars – newer cars are just not built to last like the older cards were……. it’s life. We just have to get used to it.
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We have the same laptops that we started with in 2006 and they are all going strong and the 2 Macs get the most use by far. Knock on wood! We did not buy the extra warranty either.

Our Macpro is fine despite it’s age and all the pictures and video it has had to deal with on our world tour ( & sand etc in places like the Sahara).My Macbook is great too, but I did wear out the pad in front, so now just use a mouse instead. That kind of freaked us in London, but it was a free and quick fix ( they were great at the Apple store in London) and now works fine, so we probably won’t bother to fix that pad.

I’ve adapted ( just like I had to with my paralyzed arm from the bike wreck on the Danube). It’s all part of the crazy world of traveling!

Glad that you are back in business now. New one looks cool & at least you do not have to worry about virus invading you.
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