Re:Year warranty (Score 1)

I have to second this opinion. At my lab (grad students), we have a couple of iBooks. We foolishly didn't get AppleCare for them and at least one has gone in for repair. The latch on the LCD panel broke - 13 months into ownership. Replacement cost was more than AppleCare would have been for all the laptops we own.

So when I got my 1Ghz TiBook this spring, I got an AppleCare. Didn't get one for the PowerMac - it just doesn't get abused enough for that.