AppleCare Protection Plan

BUY IT!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
for all those of you who have macs. even though you might think it's a waste of money/not worth it.

i cannot stress this enough.
one year and 7 months ago, i thought i would never use it, and my dad told me not to buy it, but i wanted to. and today i am so grateful that i was allowed to.

story is, yesterday i was trying to delete hidden files since i thought it took up more space on my hard drive than normal. apparently i deleted one of the fundamental software my mac needed, so it fully froze, and even force quit didn't work.
this all happened at 12am last night, and i was fully panicking because my whole life was on there. i don't back up stuff since i always think "it's a mac, no need to"

so i rushed to towers after school to their Genius Bar. lucky there was someone there available since i didn't make a booking, and then he started backing up all my important documents on my usb's, in case it crashed again.
then he re-installed my whole laptop, but without deleting anything.
it's a 50/50 chance. if it didn't work, then i had to come back with a hard drive and then he had to wipe it, but i realllly needed and couldn't wait more.
i was silently praying it would work, and files won't delete itself.

and it workeddddd! thank you God (:
all that took 2.5 hours.
while i was there, there were at least 6 people who got their iphones replaced, 2 people who bought laptops, 3 other people getting it repaired), at least 2 bought ipads, and another person who got a free ipod since it was under warranty. wow, i wonder if Apple will ever run out of business.
i also watched there video on the wall about their "glossary"
i learnt that if you pressed space bar twice while messaging, it becomes a full stop and a space. HOW COULD I NOT KNOW THIS BEFORE!?

anyways, there was this 60+ year old woman who also had problems with her mac book, but i overheard and apparently here laptop was out of the one year warranty, and it costs $280 +gst to fix it (might as well buy a new laptop) that's approx $300=apple care. i bought mine for 331 last year, so it's cheaper now! and you get so much other benefits. i still need to get a guy to re-format my hard drive. i should start using time machine.

you get a peace of mind with extended warranty, driving insurance, health insurance etc, even though it may cost a lot...

and i haven't done anything tonight since i think i've gone through too much stress. so glad it didn't die before trials. imagine retyping every single essay...

lesson learnt: don't show hidden files, don't touch hidden files, and don't delete hidden files. warranty is good.

three more merits to go!!! i can do it!