When buying Mac Pro — should I get the Extended Protection play?

[Kevin Monahan]

My Step-dad was Speilberg’s Dorm Roomie and good buddy at Long Beach State. What has that gotten me? Squat! And my poor step-dad wrote to him, but of course, Steve never wrote back.

Good Times.

Kevin Monahan
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[Ron James]

Yeah, and what happens when the motherboard fails one day out of the manufacturer warranty? Come to the cow and b!tch and moan about how Apple won’t do anything, of course! :O)

Of course it’s worth it. You have to factor it into the retail price, as far as I’m concerned.

Electronics fail.

[Craig Alan]

I had a G4 quicksilver dual 1 gig go south on me less than one month before the 3-year applecare extended warranty expired. An internal fan had failed and due to this almost every component inside the box got fried. They gave me a free loaner and replaced the motherboard, the power supply, the hard drive, the ram, the super drive etc. I virtually got a new machine. While I was at it I brought in my cinema display and that too was covered. They replaced the broken USB ports and got a bug (literally) out of the case. They even transferred my files over to the loaner and then back again when I picked up my Mac, so I didn