Applecare is $250 for three years of coverage for the Macbook Air. If the screen breaks or the chassis takes damage, there's a $99 replacement fee, $199 per incident for any other problems/damage.
Is this worth the price? I priced out Macbook Air screens (old style) for about $240 a pop on eBay. I've replaced several PC laptop screens before, so I could probably handle replacing an MBA screen. The keyboard shouldn't be an issue since my model doesn't have the infamous butterfly keyboard.
Now I've had Applecare before on a Macbook Pro before and it saved my bacon through four visits to the Apple Store and a logic board replacement. But the Macbook Air is not a $2500 machine either. I'm wondering whether others would consider this a worthy investment, especially considering that it's about 1/4th of the the price of the laptop.
I should also note that I eventually intend to upgrade the 128GB SSD my MBA came with. I plan to drop an NVME SSD and adapter in the machine. Will doing so make me ineligible or void my warranty?
Is this worth the price? I priced out Macbook Air screens (old style) for about $240 a pop on eBay. I've replaced several PC laptop screens before, so I could probably handle replacing an MBA screen. The keyboard shouldn't be an issue since my model doesn't have the infamous butterfly keyboard.
Now I've had Applecare before on a Macbook Pro before and it saved my bacon through four visits to the Apple Store and a logic board replacement. But the Macbook Air is not a $2500 machine either. I'm wondering whether others would consider this a worthy investment, especially considering that it's about 1/4th of the the price of the laptop.
I should also note that I eventually intend to upgrade the 128GB SSD my MBA came with. I plan to drop an NVME SSD and adapter in the machine. Will doing so make me ineligible or void my warranty?
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