AppleCare doesn't replace broken LCDs (know from experience). And this 
often happens with students, usually from having a pen laying on the 
keyboard and closing the lid....*crunch*  :-)

-Charles

Eric Cope wrote:
> Get her an Apple (with AppleCare if you want the 2 years of extended 
> warranty).
> Great hardware. Its light, it works with iTunes, Office or OpenOffice.
> The best deal is refurbed from Apple's site.
>
> 13.3" Macbook white - $849.
> http://store.apple.com/us/product/FB402LL/A?mco=MjE0NDk5Mw
>
> Don't curse her with Windows...
>
> Eric
>
> On Tue, May 12, 2009 at 9:09 AM, Charles Jones 
> <charles.jones@ciscolearning.org 
> <mailto:charles.jones@ciscolearning.org>> wrote:
>
>     If you never want to have to worry about problems with it. Get a Dell
>     and the "Complete Care" warranty. You can literally throw your laptop
>     against a wall and they will fix it good as new. Things I have
>     seen them
>     fix, while having to support some employee laptops.
>     * Replaced shattered LCD - multiple times
>     * Replaced smashed keyboard from someone pounding it with their fist,
>     multiple times
>     * Replaced outer casing to fix drop damage
>     * Replace hard disk
>     * Replace motherboard
>     * Replace onboard trackpad and/or mouse buttons
>     * Replace broken USB ports
>
>     Basically they fix anything wrong with it, and they come to wherever
>     you/she is to do it. All of the damage above was from abuse, and they
>     still made it just like new.
>
>     -Charles
>
>     Mark Phillips wrote:
>     > My oldest is heading off to college in the Fall, and she needs
>     to take
>     > a laptop with her. She has used Linux all her life, but only from
>     > Gnome, so Windows, Mac, Linux are all "the same" to her. She is a
>     > journalist, not a computer geek. Anyway, one significant requirement
>     > is for iTunes to work with her iTouch (i.e. buy music and
>     download to
>     > her iTouch). I have not been able to get Wine/iTunes to work with
>     > Debian, so I have resorted to a single Windows computer just for
>     a few
>     > games and iTunes at home.
>     >
>     > Any recommendations (1) for laptops and (2) how to keep her using
>     > Linux and not shelling out extra bucks for a Mac, or heaven
>     forbid, a
>     > Windows machine?
>     >
>     > Thanks!
>     >
>     > Mark
>