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Originally Posted by HarryT
I would not personally buy an extended warranty. I've been using hand-held electronic gizmos since the mid 1980s, and have never broken one yet. Unless you consider yourself to be a careless person, I honestly think they're a waste of money.
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I have. After 10y I dropped my trusty Palm IIIx one too many times and crack the upper left corner of the screen, plus I've read many horror stories of people with the Pandigital Novel(white) and Augen Gentouch that broke their screens. It's just too easy to drop a smaller device, so I already sprung for 3y + accidental on the gTab and am about to for the NC.
On notebooks, I usually skip it as they are larger and that seems to make me more generally aware of how I am handling them, however I became interested in tablets for two reasons: less heat in summer on lap, and easier handling in slippier conditions. (I've never dropped a notebook yet, but I probably will now since I just typed this... and just never consider extended warranties for most other things as well, excepting cars dependent upon pricing and term length/mileage cover as these have come in handy in the past, so I guess I break it down by size/cost of plan/expected repair cost and frequency(hence vehicle consideration).)
(I tend to keep all my gadgets, and just store then when they're no longer in general use, but I'd expect a tablet/reader to last me a minimum of 3y, if not 5y or longer, which is also what I expect from my notebooks and desktop PCs.)