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King Nothing
Apr 26, 2005

Ray was on a stool when he glocked the cow.
Well with about three months remaining on the applecare for my 2008 unibody macbook, my battery started intermittently giving "replace soon" messages. Took it to the store and they replaced it for free, so that's awesome. Like the OP says, get Applecare on laptops, it's worth it.

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King Nothing
Apr 26, 2005

Ray was on a stool when he glocked the cow.

Rabid Snake posted:

From http://www.apple.com/batteries/replacements.html


I was eyeing AppleCare mainly because of the fear of the diminished capacity of the battery until I read that. Did they give you much of a hassle when going to the Apple Store or did they take in your battery no questions asked? Anyone have any experience getting a built-in battery replaced in there Macbooks?

No hassle at all, the entire visit took about 15 minutes.

headfake posted:

AppleCare costs about twice as much as a battery replacement, so you'd really have to have more than just that problem for it to pay for itself.

This is true, applecare was more expensive than I remembered it being. Still, that's how insurance works I guess.

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