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This is fine and dandy if you live near an Apple store. If you don't, especially if you go overseas with a US bought product, things get much less pretty. Non-
by bk 18y ago
This is fine and dandy if you live near an Apple store. If you don't, especially if you go overseas with a US bought product, things get much less pretty.
Non-US Apple has refused to handle my US warranties, so the only recourse was to ship it to the US for repair, which means you're without your machine for several weeks.
I think with companies like lenovo or dell that cater to corporate customers worldwide you probably end up with better service in more "remote" locations.
When I was living in NYC, owning Apple products was relatively painless because of the Apple stores there.
- helveticaman 18y agoTell me about it. I had Macs in the nineties in Chile. It sucked.
- terpua 18y agoIf the non-US Apple stores are authorized re-sellers, my experience has been that they have to honor your warranty (it is applicable worldwide). I'm currently in the Philippines and have had my share of needed fixes.
- davidw 18y ago> I think with companies like lenovo or dell that cater to corporate customers worldwide you probably end up with better service in more "remote" locations. I had really good results with a US-bought laptop here in Innsbruck, Austria, which in some ways qualifies as 'remote'. http://journal.dedasys.com/2007/11/20/and-were-back-in-action http://journal.dedasys.com/2007/11/20/and-were-back-in-actio... I was dreading dealing with who knows what sort of awful bureaucracy, but instead it was simple, fast and convenient.