My conclusion, drawn from decades of electronics purchases, is that AppleCare is the only extended warranty worth purchasing. It's only RARELY come up for me,

My conclusion, drawn from decades of electronics purchases, is that AppleCare is the only extended warranty worth purchasing. It's only RARELY come up for me, but since I use my machine for work knowing I'm covered for 3 years is nice. This USED to be the period I'd keep a computer, too, but for about the last maybe 8 years (?) I find the upgrade-at-36-months thing isn't as much of a slam dunk as it used to be. I kept my last one like 4.5. My current one is 2-year-old M1 Macbook Pro, and it's still crazy fast to me. I can't imagine that's gonna change in a year.