Apple Care for iMac?

It is a MUST-HAVE!!!! Totally worth it! I can't tell you how many times I was thankful to have my AppleCare. It makes life with a MAC worry-free for 3 years.

Enjoy your iMac!

mms1648: The 90-days reflects the "free" telephonic tech support for your new mac. The warranty is for one year from the date of purchase. That is, after 90 days, if you need warranty coverage, you're still good to go for the remainder of the 9 months, you'll just have to pay for the telephone call if it turns out that your problem is software related. If it's hardware related, I think you won't be charged for the call.

As for Applecare, it's one of those subjective decisions one must make. I've a Rev A I bought 11 months ago which works flawlessly, though I did have to have the power supply replaced 4 months ago. Had it been out of warranty, that alone would probably have set me back a few hundred dollars. For my $$, Applecare is well worth it. It gives you an additional 2 years of full warranty service (after the expiration of the 1st year), and all telephone calls are covered. Since the iMac is still new technology, the consensus seems to be to get Applecare and have peace of mind.

mms 1648

Get the AppleCare! You will be thankful you did, if anything ever happens in the span of 3 years from your date of purchase. Better safe than sorry.

In the case of your school not having any problems with their 40 MACs...well, they might just be fortunate to have no problems, but doubtful none of the machines ever had problems. They probably had a outside tecnician service their Macs...you just don't know about it.

In my case, I've been on both sides of the fence...Not having AppleCare and Having Applecare. The one-time I didn't have AppleCare, I paid like $400 for screen repair on my iBook, since then I sold it and bought a Powerbook w/ Applecare. My point is whenever you purchase something expensive as computers, its in your best interest to get some sort of warranty. In this case AppleCare is great to have...it's already paid for itself with my Powerbook Ti.

Case in point: I just sent my Powerbook in for servicing because I was getting horizontal lines on my screen. Then, the MAC genius discovered that there was something wrong with my harddrive. So, I'm getting practically the whole laptop serivced free under my AppleCare, which is about to expire in a few months. I'm guessing if I decided to fis it outside AppleCare it would run me $1K to fix, which is not worth it. Anyhow, I'm hoping they can't fix it and they offer to give me a Aluminum Powerbook that's comparable to my Titanium version. Hehehe!!! Wishful thinking but you never know.

Get the AppleCare! I bought it for my new iMac.

Applecare is not renewable, but after 3 years most people have/will upgraded to a new computer.


glor

Yes, you have until the end of your 1-year warranty to buy Applecare. If you are a teacher or student, you likely qualify purchasing through Apple's education store and getting a discount on everything, incl. Applecare.

I would get AppleCare definitely before the one year expires. You can't get AppleCare after that. Your free telephone service ends after 90 days, so in order to have free telephone support you need to get AppleCare. So if you can afford it now, get it before your 90 days is up. My 2 cents.