[Harmon]

Originally Posted by kwjones

http://www.engadget.com/2010/03/13/d...ust-sends-ano/

File this one under "Things I whish I would have known earlier." Seriously, any thoughts I was entertaining as to possibly buying an iPad just went out the door.

The only part I don't like about it is the seven day wait. It beats what would be a longer wait for an actual replacement in your particular unit, though. I'll bet that would take two weeks, and be more costly just through the inefficiencies involved.

I suspect that if you live near an Apple Store, you get same day service precisely *because* you get a replacement unit.

I see two kinds of replacement scenarios:

1. you don't buy AppleCare. So you have a one year warantee. Since the battery has to get down to 50% capacity to invoke the warantee, it's unlikely that you'll need it. So you have to pay the hundred bucks at some point after one year when your battery hits the 50% mark (i.e., it can only hold a charge that is 50% of the original specifications.)

2. you buy AppleCare. It costs that same hundred bucks. Worst case scenario - you've prepaid for the battery replacement deal. But that's assuming that along about month 23, the battery has hit the 50% mark.

So the question is, to AppleCare, or not to AppleCare?