This is the most bizarre and foreign concept for Apple zealots.

I am an Apple ecosystem user myself, but previously used Dells, Lenovos and HPs, and never without NBD warranty, so I laugh at all these reactions, too haha. Apple warranty is not bad, but in 8 years of using their products, they definitely deteriorated both in timing, willingness and quality of the repairs. And the frequency increased, too. I pretty much serviced each of my recent (~3 years) MacBooks and iPhones. Personal experience, but still, I used to praise them, no longer do.

I've seen this sentiment quite a few times on this thread. Pretty tiresome to see the same braindead comments over and over again.

I've bought Dells, Macs, Lenovos, System76s, whatever. I found (find?) it hard to believe that anyone offers on-site support for a reasonable price.

Apple laptops come with a 2 year warranty by default. I've taken advantage of that probably ~10 times over the last decade. Not sure what you are implying.

[1] says 1 year, but this will vary widely by country anyway.

https://www.apple.com/legal/warranty/products/mac-english.ht...

Did you actually even read this thread? This is about NBD warranty, not any warranty.

It's free for the first year.

Looks like that's true for some machines, they've got a $50-$100 discount across the board for some machines like the XPS 15, which makes the first year free. Without that, it's normally (for each year of the warranty):

    1. $50
    2. $100
    3. $250
    4. $400

So really pretty good for 2 years. I guess they are slightly more worried about it making it to year 4, though.

1. https://www.dell.com/en-us/shop/serviceselection/xn9520cto03...