Showing posts with label Applecare. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Applecare. Show all posts

Friday, March 19, 2010

MacBook as new

Less than 36 hours after submitting my MacBook to my local Apple service center I got a phone call that it was ready to picked up. Apart from a minor adjustment of the left side of the top side plastic it was all like new!

24 hours after picking it up I got an e-mail from the Applecare manager who approved the (out of program) repair, asking if I had any problems or everything was to my satisfaction. Wow!

I wish I had had similar experience from other service incidents when repairing other gadgets. Normally a service will take 7-10 days, most often a couple of more days than initially promised, they don't call you when it is ready for pick up, and so on.

I've been a certified card holding member of the Apple fanboy club before and after this experience I'll absolutely continue to be one.

At the moment my shopping list consists of a second hand intel based Mac Mini, a 16GB iPhone 3GS, a 13.3" MacBook or MacBook pro, and a couple of AppleTVs. A substantial amount of money but I don't plan to buy it all at once. The iPhone is the top priority since I need to replace one of the original iPhones in the family.

I've run some 4.5K runs and a 10K run this week. None of them especially fast I have to admit. I felt very low on energy when I did the 10K run - the clock stopped on 1 hour exactly. I have some serious training to do before I'll reach my target time of 50 minutes. I have a 10K race planned for the 8th May so I still have some time.

Hey, this was my second blog entry this week - a first in veery long time!