Warrenty Extensions

Hope this is the right forum (seemed to be the closest) all I can say is

Thank goodness for getting warrenty extensions, my laptop has been repaired three times under the warrenty extension (admitedly that makes it a bit of a dud laptop but) they have replaced the motherboard each time which in and of itself is about $500-$1000 so... thank goodness for $200 warrenty extensions.

 

Yeah my extended 4yr warranty is up at the end of summer and I may extend it if possible for 1-2 more years until I get an entirely new notebook. Its a very handy thing to have because at the very least you can rest easy. All I've had was a hard drive go out but that almost paid for the warranty right there. And as a system ages you'll be more likely to need a warranty.

 

I didn't have an extended warranty for my old system, and I paid the consequences of not having one massively. While it was under the 1-year warranty, the optical drive died, and was replaced. But once that expired, all hell broke loose. The optical drive died again. The LCD fried itself, and I paid $600 for a new LCD that had 12 dead pixels. Then the battery failed. The hard drive failed catastrophically. Now the LCD is starting to fry itself again. Basically, an extended warranty would've been paid for with even one of the above repairs.

Needless to say, I have a 3-year warranty on my new system. The irony of all this is that my KN1's parts are so easy to access that I could replace just about anything except the motherboard myself. Still, I think the warranty is still worth it just for the cost of replacement parts.