9/23/15 9:11 AM

My son has a Macbook Air that is now 2 weeks old. At 1 week, a light globe fell on it, cracking the screen. I sent it to Apple for a repair estimate.

$775 plus tax= ~$825.

I said no, and found some independent repair sites on line. I assume the warranty will be void, but thats life.

I'm glad we didn't buy Applecare because that would be void also.

9/23/15 12:16 PM

You should buy Applecare. It's a no-brainer.

My macbook pro has had many thousands of dollars worth of repairs within the warranty period. Motherboard replaced twice. Screen once. SSD once.

Sandiway

9/23/15 12:19 PM

I asked Apple about this and they said accidental damage is not covered by AppleCare on a MacBook. iOS devices are different.

9/23/15 12:22 PM

I'm not talking about accidental damage. I'm talking about in-warranty repairs because the laptop fails.

9/23/15 12:58 PM

But... if one has/had the Apple Care and went outside Apple to repair it would void said Apple Care. At least that is what I got out of it. So even with Apple Care the cost to repair to not loose the coverage by repairing via Apple makes for financial obsolescence, yes?

9/23/15 2:24 PM

...speaks volumes about the build-quality.

<i>"My macbook pro has had many thousands of dollars worth of repairs within the warranty period. Motherboard replaced twice. Screen once. SSD once."</i>

9/23/15 2:27 PM

It is all junk. ;) The costs go to keeping the junk functional basically, the cost IS the service mostly I figure. Cause we can't live without all the junk obviously. ;)

9/23/15 7:39 PM

I lost an SSD in my MBA, fixed under warranty. Any further repairs I will do myself.

After replacing a digitizer in a iPhone 4, I can fix any thing in my MBA as long as I wear glasses.

There are TONS of aftermarket parts and such for Apple products from upgraded SSDs to new keyboards and computing guts. People hop up the MBA as a hobby for speed, battery life and such so they are easy to find parts for.