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Apple Care Warranty Worth every penny!
Ok so begining of 2009 i bought a new MacPro, my old G4 died on me and i needed something for graphic work.
So the 2008 models where cheap by then and i got myself a Quad Core 2.8 macPro. Apple care warranty was like $300 on top of what i paid for the mac.
Few weeks ago my Mac wasnt starting up normally anymore and came to the point it wouldnt start at all. So i called up apple, went thru everything on my end of trying to fix it, taking out ram, HDs, etc.... So i made a appointment to hit the apple store with my MacPro.
Went in, waited for my turn, told the guy what was wrong. he took it into the back room, ran a test came out and told me hes got good and bad news. Motherboard and Proccesors were shot, good news is apple care covered it. $2000 to fix it and i dont have to spend a dime.
Before this happened i upgraded to a new vid card, so my old was was all dusty and was used. So i brought that into the apple store, told them it was faulty, no questions asked, they took it back and replaced it for free and i sold it on ebay. Made some money back for the better vid card i bought.
and before that the hard drive that came with the mac was a Maxtor, and i hate these drives cause they always crap out. So when i got the macpro i bought a seagate and used the maxtor as a windows HD. Few times runing the maxtor drive it died. Brought it into the apple store and replaced without question.
So if you guys ever buy a mac, snag the apple care well worth it. Standing at apple stores and watching people bring in broken items, the employes always walk into the back room, bring out a new item and people walk out with new stuff with no hassle. Guess its better to replace the items new then fix them while customers wait weeks.
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