I checked online, and Apple Care plan seems to be about USD250 for 3 years. A new MAC comes with a 1 year warantee. @Peter's price assesment, the MAC Book Pro @1,799USD ( Is this a local price or shipping and handling costs needed to be added? ), therefore total cost including a 3 year warantee plan put the MAC at @2049USD. Adding the 128GB SSD drive = @221USD. Grand total on the MAC is = @USD 2,270. However, all the modem and wimax features not there. Turns out MAC is still more expensive then the IBM X220 laptop.