On 28 Nov 2005, at 5:25pm, Nathaniel Lindley wrote:
Our district is reviewing our policy of purchasing Applecare on all
Apple computer purchases. Are we overspending? Ran some numbers and
if we purchased 1000 iBooks and didn't buy Applecare but instead added
a 10% charge on the purchase for repair use, we would save approx.
$88,000.
Does your use of the iBooks allow substitution if one goes wrong ? In
other words, if someone brought one into you that wasn't working, could
you just swap it for a spare ? Because you could buy 20 spare iBooks
for $20,000 and spend the other $68,000 on repairs as and when needed.
That gives you the usual 2% spare capacity for broken computers.
The balance on this comes down to how likely each of your 1,000 iBooks
is to go wrong and how much it costs to have them repaired outside the
AppleCare agreements.
Simon
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Simon Slavin Fylde Building Room C11
Computing Development Officer 01524 65201 x 93569
Psychology Department
University of Lancaster
