Just to give another opinion to restore some balance in the force...
10 to 11 months in the screen of my MacBook Air M1 died. It was working before going to sleep, had a protective case cover and when the wife woke up, the screen was showing garbage. I saw several pictures online of the exact same issue. As I had not one but two older MacBook Air, from 2013 and 2014 IIRC, that never had any issue I didn't even think about buying an additional warranty.
Paid the M1 1000 EUR, Apple is asking 680 EUR to fix the screen. To add insult to injury they're asking 50 EUR to ship the broken M1 back.
I'm done with Apple. Wife, who runs her SME using Google stuff (G Suite / workspace / whatever), now replaced her aging MacBook Air with a 300 EUR Chromebook and she's perfectly happy (obviously wouldn't work for a software dev but it's just to point out that a company can lose customers). There was no way she'd buy a new M1 after that "we'll fix your broken screen for 68% of the MSRP" episode.
If you're serious about buying a piece of equipment as brittle as the M1 laptop, make sure to buy the best Apple warranty you can and make sure to have a plan B for when it'll fail.
The M1 was a nice machine when it worked. It's brittle. Many people have the exact same problem as we did. So, yeah, give even more money to Apple by buying the best warranty you can because for all the marvel that the M1 is, it's very certainly not as sturdy as my LG Gram (my LG Gram is lighter and has 24 GB of RAM but it's not as powerful as the M1 and it doesn't have a retina display so there's that).
Just curious why would they want to charge you such an obscene amount if it's within 10-11 months? Surely that's still warranty, without requiring AppleCare?
10 to 11 months in the screen of my MacBook Air M1 died. It was working before going to sleep, had a protective case cover and when the wife woke up, the screen was showing garbage. I saw several pictures online of the exact same issue. As I had not one but two older MacBook Air, from 2013 and 2014 IIRC, that never had any issue I didn't even think about buying an additional warranty.
Paid the M1 1000 EUR, Apple is asking 680 EUR to fix the screen. To add insult to injury they're asking 50 EUR to ship the broken M1 back.
I'm done with Apple. Wife, who runs her SME using Google stuff (G Suite / workspace / whatever), now replaced her aging MacBook Air with a 300 EUR Chromebook and she's perfectly happy (obviously wouldn't work for a software dev but it's just to point out that a company can lose customers). There was no way she'd buy a new M1 after that "we'll fix your broken screen for 68% of the MSRP" episode.
If you're serious about buying a piece of equipment as brittle as the M1 laptop, make sure to buy the best Apple warranty you can and make sure to have a plan B for when it'll fail.
The M1 was a nice machine when it worked. It's brittle. Many people have the exact same problem as we did. So, yeah, give even more money to Apple by buying the best warranty you can because for all the marvel that the M1 is, it's very certainly not as sturdy as my LG Gram (my LG Gram is lighter and has 24 GB of RAM but it's not as powerful as the M1 and it doesn't have a retina display so there's that).