{"id":1630,"date":"2009-04-09T13:13:45","date_gmt":"2009-04-09T19:13:45","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/addlepated.net\/blog\/?p=1630"},"modified":"2009-04-09T13:13:45","modified_gmt":"2009-04-09T19:13:45","slug":"applecare","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/addlepated.net\/blog\/archives\/1630","title":{"rendered":"Applecare"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>This is why I buy the Applecare extended warranty.<\/p>\n<p>On my MacBook Pro, Applecare is due to run out on April 27.  I took it in because there were some dark spots on the display, some blemishes on the case, and a loud fan.  They did a complete freaking overhaul.  They replaced:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>The top case ($285)<\/li>\n<li>The display ($850)<\/li>\n<li>The optical drive ($150)<\/li>\n<li>The logic board ($650)<\/li>\n<li>Both fans ($90)<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>(Prices from <a href=\"http:\/\/www.powerbookmedic.com\">Powerbook Medic<\/a>.)<\/p>\n<p>Yes, you are out there shouting that all that stuff is overpriced, which I&#8217;m sure it is.  But I paid $349 for the warranty, and I&#8217;m pretty sure you can&#8217;t get all these things for any equivalent notebook for under that price.  And to have all that stuff replaced on a three year old computer?  Win.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This is why I buy the Applecare extended warranty. On my MacBook Pro, Applecare is due to run out on April 27. I took it in because there were some dark spots on the display, some blemishes on the case, and a loud fan. They did a complete freaking overhaul. They replaced: The top case [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[5],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/addlepated.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1630"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/addlepated.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/addlepated.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/addlepated.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/addlepated.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1630"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/addlepated.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1630\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1631,"href":"http:\/\/addlepated.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1630\/revisions\/1631"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/addlepated.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1630"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/addlepated.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1630"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/addlepated.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1630"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}