<p>This was suggested to me for my soon-to-be college son’d new computer. At first blush, coverage appears to be much the same as Apple Care, and the cost is almost 50% less. ($399/ three years for Apple; $200/three years Squaretrade). Any knowledge or experience in CC land?</p>
<p>The Apple care for my Macbook Pro- is $189. I have used square trade before- but it was with a phone I bought on ebay- that didn’t work- and I did get a refund-( but not for the ins) but I have never considered using anything but Apple Care for the Apple products because I have had very good experience with the coverage.</p>
<p>You have an Apple store you can walk into to have it serviced- however if you have to mail it anyway- then that could be a toss up.</p>
<p>However I read this</p>
<p>*Square trade looks like a good deal… I’m going to email them… the only thing I found that looks BAD and really bad… is…</p>
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that there is a total load of crap… basically, if you have a $1199 13" MBP warranty and the motherboard dies, and they pay Apple $700 for a replacement motherboard… and 6 months later it dies again… they wont fix it, they’ll just pay you $500 and say your warranty is over.
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<p>Some suggest going on ebay to buy Applecare.</p>
<p>How did you get a $400 cost for an Apple warranty? The education cost for 3 year Applecare on the most expensive computer they sell - with 2 quad core processors, etc. - is $199. The non-education price is $249. For a MacBook Pro, the price is as noted above, $183.</p>
<p>I just bought a MacBook Pro 15 for my son. AppleCare cost was $239. This was with the summer college discount ($150 off computer, free iPod Touch). The laptop did have some upgrades from the base model.</p>