Almost a switcher...

[mike518]

don't feel pressured to buy the app right away. i bought my mbp in february and spent basically all my savings on it. five months on and i noticed a spare $500 odd dollars in my account and i've just days ago purchased the app plan (with edu discount of course).

btw, i may be incorrect, but i believe the people above who think that the app gives an additional 3 years warranty are wrong, and that in actual fact, the app only takes the warranty to 3 years from the original purchase date.

 

[softtack]

Fair enough; I sometimes wrongly assume that people go for boot-camp/Vista to play DX10 games.

That's understandable. I'm sure there are a lot of people who want/got a MBP thinking they could do some gaming with the 8600GT. It's not a bad card, relative to my current Intel Extreme Graphics laptop, but it should run some of the more popular games such as CS and Half-Life without a hitch. I just want a good CPU and GPU for decoding HD content.

don't feel pressured to buy the app right away. i bought my mbp in february and spent basically all my savings on it. five months on and i noticed a spare $500 odd dollars in my account and i've just days ago purchased the app plan (with edu discount of course).

btw, i may be incorrect, but i believe the people above who think that the app gives an additional 3 years warranty are wrong, and that in actual fact, the app only takes the warranty to 3 years from the original purchase date.

I wish I could find a spare $500 in my bank account ;D. I'll probably purchase the APP later on. It doesn't really matter to me if it extends it to 3 or 4 years because I'll probably have moved onto a new computer by then.

 

[AndrewUK84]

Regarding the Apple Care plan I thought it only covered you for an extra 2 years after the first year with Apple comes to an end so you only get 3 years in total, am I right?

 

[handsheldhigh]

Regarding the Apple Care plan I thought it only covered you for an extra 2 years after the first year with Apple comes to an end so you only get 3 years in total, am I right?

yes, that it is right. it extends both your warranty and technical support to three years from the original purchase date