AppleCare doesn't replace broken LCDs (know from experience). And this
often happens with students, usually from having a pen laying on the
keyboard and closing the lid....*crunch* :-)
-Charles
Eric Cope wrote:
Get her an Apple (with AppleCare if you want the 2 years of extended
warranty).
Great hardware. Its light, it works with iTunes, Office or OpenOffice.
The best deal is refurbed from Apple's site.
13.3" Macbook white - $849.
http://store.apple.com/us/product/FB402LL/A?mco=MjE0NDk5Mw
Don't curse her with Windows...
Eric
On Tue, May 12, 2009 at 9:09 AM, Charles Jones
<charles.jo...@ciscolearning.org
<mailto:charles.jo...@ciscolearning.org>> wrote:
If you never want to have to worry about problems with it. Get a Dell
and the "Complete Care" warranty. You can literally throw your laptop
against a wall and they will fix it good as new. Things I have
seen them
fix, while having to support some employee laptops.
* Replaced shattered LCD - multiple times
* Replaced smashed keyboard from someone pounding it with their fist,
multiple times
* Replaced outer casing to fix drop damage
* Replace hard disk
* Replace motherboard
* Replace onboard trackpad and/or mouse buttons
* Replace broken USB ports
Basically they fix anything wrong with it, and they come to wherever
you/she is to do it. All of the damage above was from abuse, and they
still made it just like new.
-Charles
Mark Phillips wrote:
> My oldest is heading off to college in the Fall, and she needs
to take
> a laptop with her. She has used Linux all her life, but only from
> Gnome, so Windows, Mac, Linux are all "the same" to her. She is a
> journalist, not a computer geek. Anyway, one significant requirement
> is for iTunes to work with her iTouch (i.e. buy music and
download to
> her iTouch). I have not been able to get Wine/iTunes to work with
> Debian, so I have resorted to a single Windows computer just for
a few
> games and iTunes at home.
>
> Any recommendations (1) for laptops and (2) how to keep her using
> Linux and not shelling out extra bucks for a Mac, or heaven
forbid, a
> Windows machine?
>
> Thanks!
>
> Mark
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