I highly recommend Apple Care! I haven't bought it for my new MacBook yet, but I plan to soon. With my previous Mac, an iBook, I did get the warranty. I used it several times- the wires frayed on my charger and they overnighted me a new one; the speakers shorted out and sounded crackly and they fixed it in about a week (and cleaned my white computer which was awesome) and the big one- I was studying in France and my computer just gave out completely, I called Apple France, they had someone who spoke English, they sent a DHL courier with a box for me to pack the computer in, they picked it up (this was a Friday afternoon), sent it for repairs, and had it back to me Monday. The service is always great and it does come in handy. Apple makes great products but I have occasionally had trouble and AppleCare has always come through for me.