the warranty is different than apple care. apple care covers everything! the bitch is, you HAVE to spend the extra $150 on it.
our imac in the last two years:
- off-color "strip" of pixels (about an inch wide) running down the screen.
- ate a CD and refused to eject it ("that's my husband's cd - I would never listen to "Big Blunts - 12 smokin' reggae hits".
- catastrophic hard-drive failure.
- screaming cooling fan.
who knows what's next???
this shit rarely happens to pc's and when/if it does, I can fix it my damn self without having to consult with "geniuses".
note: this last mention of the geniuses did not make me snort; I puked my guts out.