Rob Beattie wrote on 11/5/09 at 17:56 >I'm about to be receive a replacement MacBook from John Lewis for the >one they lost when they were supposed to be repairing it.
I would look into this. It might be that Apple will issue it from one year after they ship it/log it as purchased. Talk to Apple first. My experience with Applecare goes like this: every machine that has made it faultlessly to one year has made it to at least four or five, also faultlessly. Every machine that has developed a slight fault (eg a weird ethernet socket fault once on an iMac) has continued to develop apparently unrelated problems over and over and has therefore justified Applecare. The following evidence may become tedious! but it is the track record I refer to. I realise this borders on voodoo thinking but it has held true with Se30 [worked for ages, was sold on to an artist who then filmed herself burying it and blowing it up. That's artists for you.] PB 150 [dropped several times, eventually screen corner stopped working] PB 1400 [landed on this when hit by car off bicycle -- travelled 15 feet through the air THEN landed on it. Minor cosmetic damage, worked til I sold it to second hard dealer who left it checking for 24 hours and said it was faultless] iBook (clamshell, still going since 1999, rarely used) iBook SE (developed fault, never behaved and was then stolen in burglary) PB G4 = the best ever machine until the new unibody MB PB G4 no 2 - the best ever machine until the new unibody MB... iMac G4 (fault, continued faults, sold as intermittently faulty) iMac G4 (still working, about 8 or 9 years old) iMac G5 (still working, about 4 or 5 years old) The last two did get very intolerant of home-burned disks after about three years but both stil play shop-bought ones fine. oh, and MB black 2.0 dual core, still used at work, weird intermittent faults as described. and finally, the unibody MB which is perfect in every way. Working fine since November.... Looking back, I could probably have paid my mortgage if I had not been into Macs... --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Sussex Mac User Group" group. To post to this group, send email to [email protected] To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [email protected] For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/smug?hl=en-GB -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
