Having more Apple Stores nearby doesn't necessarily mean you can get repairs done faster. I've had Apple laptops repaired a number of times and it seems like ma

Having more Apple Stores nearby doesn't necessarily mean you can get repairs done faster. I've had Apple laptops repaired a number of times and it seems like mailing it to the repair center is always faster than leaving it at the store because the stores have such a huge backlog. I'm not sure about Europe, but in the US, they overnight you a box, you overnight them the machine, they fix it in a day, then overnight it back to you. One time I did this right before I traveled across country and they even mailied it to my destination for me and the computer beat me there. If there's a design flaw in the computer, they will even do this for you without AppleCare which is nice.