Alienware M11x Warranty

Which Warranty Plan do you guys recommend?

Basic, Advanced or even Premium?

1, 2 or even 3 years?

What’s the best plan and worth the money?

Thanks for your answers

 

@ home service (not sure if that's basic or not) with 3yr should be plenty.

 

In the past, I have always bought the 3-year Advanced Protection Plan (includes accidental damage protection) for all of the laptops I have had. If you use it just once, then it pays for itself. And I have always used it within 3 years, either through something that I did to cause damage, or because of some defect.

So, my recommendation is to get the Advanced plan for 3 years. Worth every penny in the long run,

 

I have the basic 1 year. This is my first time buying a laptop because of college. errr.. so far no problems. I keep my m11x clean and safe. I never had problems with my 8 year custom built desktop so I thought of just leaving it to 1 yr plan... I really hope nothing bad happens to the laptop(physically).

 

GPU's in laptops die very often especially with Nvidia.

I've been on this forum for a long time, and always think "I told you so" when I see threads like "laptop died after warranty expired".

The only warranty I do purchase is Dell, and phone insurance(NOT IPHONE), and both had served well in my experience.

 

nVidia cleaned it up with the G92 derivatives, as far as I know.

G80 and it's 90/80nm cousins are probably what you are thinking about. That, and solder choice (similar issue MS faced with the xbox360).

 

With the crappy design of the hinge/LCD I would have to say its worth it for the M11x. I have had (2) LCDs replaced already id prefer a refund at this point.

 

Can you extend your warranty at any time?
I just took the one year as at my budget that is all I could cover but I would like to extend at least an extra year before my first is up!
This may be a stupid question as I know the majority of companies allow this.

 

You can, but in my case it was going to cost more than if i just bought it initially.

 

Ah yeah I thought that might be the case, but as I said there was no way of me affording it at the time.
So taking it out in a year will be much more realistic.
I only bought it on Tuesday so plenty of time till it needs updating!

 

I bought the 1 year because Dell said it would be no problem to add supplemental warranty at a later date - what they neglected to tell me is that it would cost 3X more later. But nevermind. I also chose NOT to go with Dell accidental, because it's a ripoff. I purchased accidental from a seperate insurer - which was about 3x cheaper and had better terms.