<html><body style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space; ">If you sell it at list, it is hardly paper thin. Applecare for an iMac for instance is $169. Cost is $118 I believe. it is still worth it though.Ê<div><br><div><div>On Jul 13, 2007, at 9:48 PM, CW Smith wrote:</div><br class="Apple-interchange-newline"><blockquote type="cite">>From a techie sort:Ê<div><br class="webkit-block-placeholder"></div><div>Laptop parts are, by their nature, smaller and more expensive. Laptop designs are smaller, more densely arranged, and take longer to work on than comparable desktops. And because laptops get moved around more, the likelihood of a hard drive failure, or just of a cable coming loose, becomes higher. </div><div><br class="webkit-block-placeholder"></div><div>What this adds up to is that repairs after the factory warranty are likely to be more frequent, and more expensive, than they would be on a desktop machine of similar specs. </div><div><br class="webkit-block-placeholder"></div><div>For these reasons, I recommend to our laptop customers at Haddock that they purchase AppleCare. (Trust me, it's not for the paper-thin margin we make when we sell it!) I hate to see a perfectly good PowerBook or iBook retired before its time because the cost of the repair seemed too much. And I also hate to see a customer become discouraged when their laptop (almost inevitably) needs a major repair after the factory warranty. Please consider AppleCare, and feel free to call me at Haddock to set it up. </div><div><br class="webkit-block-placeholder"></div><div>Peace,</div><div>CW<br><br><div><span class="gmail_quote">On 7/13/07, <b class="gmail_sendername">Darcy Baston</b> <<a href="mailto:darcybaston@mac.com">darcybaston@mac.com </a>> wrote:</span><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0;margin-left:0.8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex">I agree with that. My 1999 DV SE iMac has yet to break down (beyond<br>monitor color fading), and my 2003 iBook has had 2 keyboard <br>replacements, and has a crack that's being held together with clear<br>tape. My 2005 G5 tower has never acted up in any way. It's old<br>reliable. I just got a MacBook 2.16GHz and I expect trouble within<br>the first year. <br><br>Nature of portables. *shrug* They see more of the world.<br><br>Darcy<br><br><br>On Jul 13, 2007, at 8:40 PM, Jon Thompson wrote:<br><br>One in seven laptops break down in the first year (industry average,<br>not just Apple).ÊÊThe number only increases after that. <br><br>Desktops don't need extended warranties, notebooks should have them<br>by default.<br>_______________________________________________<br>DMMUG mailing list<br>Use this Address to send mail to the list:<br><a href="mailto:DMMUG@dmmug.org"> DMMUG@dmmug.org</a><br>Use this page to modify subscription options:<br><a href="http://cialug.org/mailman">http://cialug.org/mailman</a>/listinfo/dmmug<br></blockquote></div><br><br clear="all"><br>-- <br>Curt (CW) Smith <br>Musician, Composer, Producer, Technician<br><br>Personal: <a href="mailto:cwsmith7@gmail.com">cwsmith7@gmail.com</a><br>Technical: <a href="mailto:cw@gohaddock.com">cw@gohaddock.com</a><br>Musical: <a href="mailto:cwsmith@spymac.com"> cwsmith@spymac.com</a> </div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; ">_______________________________________________</div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; ">DMMUG mailing list</div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; ">Use this Address to send mail to the list:</div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; "><a href="mailto:DMMUG@dmmug.org">DMMUG@dmmug.org</a></div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; ">Use this page to modify subscription options:</div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; "><a href="http://cialug.org/mailman/listinfo/dmmug">http://cialug.org/mailman/listinfo/dmmug</a></div> </blockquote></div><br><div> <span class="Apple-style-span" style="border-collapse: separate; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 14px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: normal; orphans: 2; text-align: auto; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-border-horizontal-spacing: 0px; -webkit-border-vertical-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-decorations-in-effect: none; -webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0; "><font size="2"><font face="Verdana, Helvetica, Arial"><span style="font-size:12.0px">--<span class="Apple-converted-space">Ê</span><br>ð<br></span></font><span style="font-size:12.0px"><font face="Monaco, Courier New">~V~ 8109 Ponch<br>DSMVROC 1<br>Des Moines VROC Chapter<br><a href="http://autos.groups.yahoo.com/group/DSMVROC/">http://autos.groups.yahoo.com/group/DSMVROC/</a><br>2007 Nomad Red and Silver ÒMikeyÓ<br><a href="http://www.vroc.org/view_profile.php?user_id=9318">http://www.vroc.org/view_profile.php?user_id=9318</a><br>Waukee IA<br>Earthling by mistake, American by birth, New Yorker by God, and Iowan by choice.<br></font></span></font></span> </div><br></div></body></html>