Path: utzoo!utgpu!watmath!att!bellcore!rutgers!cs.utexas.edu!uunet!dino!uxc.cso.uiuc.edu!uxc.cso.uiuc.edu!m.cs.uiuc.edu!gillies From: gillies@m.cs.uiuc.edu Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac Subject: Re: Problems with SE/030 Message-ID: <8400147@m.cs.uiuc.edu> Date: 8 Aug 89 23:05:43 GMT References: <125@cmdfs2.intel.com> Lines: 7 Nf-ID: #R:cmdfs2.intel.com:125:m.cs.uiuc.edu:8400147:000:365 Nf-From: m.cs.uiuc.edu!gillies Aug 7 20:44:00 1989 Well, at least under our university discounts, Applecare *is* *not* proportional to the purchase price of the machine. The SE/030/40Mb, at $2987 (departmental), costs $220+, yet the Mac II, at about $3000, only costs $140. So something is fishy in Applecare. The next time I buy a machine, I might use Applecare to assess Apple's confidence in their own product!