Why Every Mac User Should Have AppleCare

Finally, I got my Macbook back today. YEY! I didn't realize how bad I really missed it until I held it once again after weeks of its absence [which almost seemed like forever to me]. 

I want to say thank you to the three people who made it possible: To Rj, who kindly took it to Power Mac to have it diagnosed & repaired, and who later picked it up amidst the very bad weather & awful traffic; To Eric, who graciously agreed to pick it up from Rj's dorm and brought it to Prince Plaze II at such a short notice and at a very inconvenient time for him; and last but not the least, to Ryan, who safely hand carried the macbook all the way from Manila and back into my longing arms [or lap, for that matter :p]. 

I sent it in because I noticed that the battery was no longer charging. It happened after I started becoming too lazy to even just shut down the laptop, instead, I just fold the topcase to close it whenever I'm done using it for the day. I know I could have avoided the battery problem if I weren't so lazy. Thank goodness we had purchased an AppleCare Protection Plan with the Macbook. 

An AppleCare PP extends the support coverage a Mac to another three years from the basic one year hardware support you get upon purchasing it. At the time of purchase, it almost seemed that we will never really need to use the extended support, but why chance it? Paying roughly 8,000 php in addition to the laptop's price tag for extended support you may not really use seemed a bit hefty at that time, but the potential benefits easily outweighed the cons. Thankfully, I just proved that buying it was indeed a very wise decision and it feels great to reap the benefits of that wiseness now. :) An AppleCare is actually worth every peso, and more. 

The technicians at Power Mac in GB3 diagnosed the battery problem, and then found a crack on the top case, as well as discoloration on the bezel and decided to go ahead and change all the parts without even questioned where, why, or how it happened. Imagine my delight upon opening the packaging of my Macbook and saw that it actually looked good as new! I didn't know there was a crack anywhere on my laptop since it never fell, but the discoloration came from the time Kaden decided he wanted to play with his crayons and color my white laptop pink & green when it was only a week old. Art & I tried our best to remove the crayon marks and in the end the discoloration was actually hardly noticeable, so you cannot imagine my delight that they replaced it. Best of all, every part they replaced on my Mac was for free! 

This is what I would have paid if I didn't own an AppleCare PP:

But, because I have AppleCare, this is what I paid:

I just love being a Mac user! Aside from never having to bother with anti-viruses and all the spyware crap, I love their OS [even if it took me a while to get used to it], and how cool is the @mac email address?!? I just know that i want to forever be a Mac user. Although Art complains about having very limited (and only original) games to choose from, I know he, too, adores his Mac as much as I do mine. If worse comes to worse, you can always opt to install Windows Vista on our Mac so you can switch from Leopard to Vista at any time you deem it necessary. Is there anything cooler than that?!? :) I just hope that soon, yahoo messenger for mac will come up with a way for us mac users to be able to photo share with the pc based users. 

You know what they say, "Once you go Mac, you never go back!"  :p