Comments on: An Ode to AppleCare http://decafbad.com/blog/2006/04/20/an-ode-to-applecare It's all spinning wheels and self-doubt until the first pot of coffee. Thu, 11 Mar 2010 12:23:09 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.0-alpha By: We Interrupt This Broadcast http://decafbad.com/blog/2006/04/20/an-ode-to-applecare/comment-page-1#comment-49967 We Interrupt This Broadcast Tue, 14 Nov 2006 18:59:16 +0000 http://decafbad.com/blog/2006/04/20/an-ode-to-applecare#comment-49967 <p><strong>My Ode to Applecare (and Woe Is My Computer)...</strong></p> <p>Sadly, I think my G4 tower has a failing processor or logic board. Starting up the computer after it's been off a few hours has lately been giving me kernel panics (but restarts usually go fine). Running the Apple Hardware Test......</p> My Ode to Applecare (and Woe Is My Computer)…

Sadly, I think my G4 tower has a failing processor or logic board. Starting up the computer after it’s been off a few hours has lately been giving me kernel panics (but restarts usually go fine). Running the Apple Hardware Test……

]]> By: Anne 2.0 » Macs: The Good, The Bad, The Inexplicable http://decafbad.com/blog/2006/04/20/an-ode-to-applecare/comment-page-1#comment-10788 Anne 2.0 » Macs: The Good, The Bad, The Inexplicable Tue, 09 May 2006 20:25:17 +0000 http://decafbad.com/blog/2006/04/20/an-ode-to-applecare#comment-10788 <p>[...] The AppleCare hard sell. The same week I bought my two new Macs, we bought a car and a shredder. In all those cases I was subjected to a doom-and-gloom story about what might happen if I didn’t buy the extended special dance-remix warranty on my new purchase. But now I still have a pot of money that I can direct toward whichever item breaks—or something completely different. Despite Les Orchard’s Ode to AppleCare which made me wonder if I’d miscalculated in this case, I am against buying specific extended warranties. I think I’m better off saving the money and then having it available for whatever breaks. [...]</p> [...] The AppleCare hard sell. The same week I bought my two new Macs, we bought a car and a shredder. In all those cases I was subjected to a doom-and-gloom story about what might happen if I didn’t buy the extended special dance-remix warranty on my new purchase. But now I still have a pot of money that I can direct toward whichever item breaks—or something completely different. Despite Les Orchard’s Ode to AppleCare which made me wonder if I’d miscalculated in this case, I am against buying specific extended warranties. I think I’m better off saving the money and then having it available for whatever breaks. [...]

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