I bought this computer at the beginning of 2007, it is a Sony Vaio, I paid around 550 dollars, it has worked problem free for all this time, reading all the hype about Apple I thought when this goes, I might get an Apple, when I saw the prices I was shocked just the base price seemed so out of line, I can buy three more of these over the next 20 years for the cost of one lowest priced Apple, now as far as customer service I don’t know I’ve never needed it, but I bet if you took an eight year old Apple into one of their shops; they would not do much for you, at least not a reasonable price.
You could go into the Apple Store with an ORIGINAL iPad, be way out of warranty, and they would replace it with one of their newly refurbished iPads with a full warranty on it ... for $300 ... which is a fraction of that new price. In my case, the guy simply offered to replace mine for FREE today, and I never even asked for that ... :-) ...
“...I might get an Apple, when I saw the prices I was shocked just the base price seemed so out of line, I can buy three more of these over the next 20 years for the cost of one lowest priced Apple, now as far as customer service I don’t know I’ve never needed it, but I bet if you took an eight year old Apple into one of their shops; they would not do much for you, at least not a reasonable price.”
You can get an amazing number of basic cars for the price of a Lexus, Mercedes, etc. It’s great to be a consumer and have choices!
You’re simply a Ford Focus guy, or whatever. No problem. You earn. You pay. You use.