Just brought a new toshiba laptop - should i pay for the extended waranty

claire8606

Hi ive just brought a new laptop, the laptop comes with a standard 12 month waranty.

There is a option to extend this to 3 years for £45.00 Is it worth it??

Thanks

Claire

zzzLazyDaisy

How soon do you have to make up your mind?

I previously had a Dell laptop which developed problems within the first few months - at the end of the first year I took the extended warranty and was glad I did - it needed three new mains lead/chargers which would have been £60 a pop, not to mention the mother board, and hard drive failure in the second year....

I now have a samsung laptop which has never been any trouble and I haven't taken the extended warranty.

It is a gamble really, but in all fairness £22.50 a year isn't a lot for peace of mind.

claire8606

this is what is covered:

http://uk.computers.toshiba-europe.com/innovation/jsp/individualServices.do?service=UK&ACTION=SHOW_ATTRIBUTES&selCategory=2319&oldCategory=2319&oldFamily=2326&selFamily=2326&selSeries=1084942&selProduct=1087629&OPTION_ID=1073940&toshibaShop=true

claire8606

i need to decide in 30 days

zzzLazyDaisy

Okay, this is just my opinion - hopefully a techie will be along soon with more knowledge..

But this doesn't look like an extended warranty to me, it just looks like a data recovery service. In that case (in my view) you'd be better spending the money on a portable hard-drive - something like this..

http://www.amazon.co.uk/s/ref=nb_sb_ss_i_0_27?url=search-alias%3Daps&field-keywords=portable+hard+drive+toshiba&sprefix=portable+hard+drive+toshiba

And getting into the habit of backing up your computer so that if you should have a sudden data loss, you have all your photos, documents etc stored safely somewhere else (you should be doing this anyway).

As I say, just my personal opinion.

Hammyman

If its a standard consumer spec one, I'd say its definitely worth doing. A lot of the sub £800 laptops nowadays are lucky to see out the warranty without issues.

Donnie

zzzLazyDaisy wrote: »

Okay, this is just my opinion - hopefully a techie will be along soon with more knowledge..

But this doesn't look like an extended warranty to me, it just looks like a data recovery service. In that case (in my view) you'd be better spending the money on a portable hard-drive - something like this..

http://www.amazon.co.uk/s/ref=nb_sb_ss_i_0_27?url=search-alias%3Daps&field-keywords=portable+hard+drive+toshiba&sprefix=portable+hard+drive+toshiba

And getting into the habit of backing up your computer so that if you should have a sudden data loss, you have all your photos, documents etc stored safely somewhere else (you should be doing this anyway).

As I say, just my personal opinion.

It a warranty with Data Recovery as an addition.

GeoffX

There's an article about laptop reliability here. It's based upon a report by SquareTrade which surveyed over 30,000 laptops. It essentially says that you have about a 20% chance of the laptop failing in three years, rising to 31% if you include accidental damage. There's a graph covering various manufacturers' performance here.

debitcardmayhem

GeoffX wrote: »

There's an article about laptop reliability here. It's based upon a report by SquareTrade which surveyed over 30,000 laptops. It essentially says that you have about a 20% chance of the laptop failing in three years, rising to 31% if you include accidental damage. There's a graph covering various manufacturers' performance here.

I am so happy I have an asus 27 months old , sadly IMHO whilst the Lappy is all I would wish and (touch wood) reliable, as for the ASUS site it is less than useless. Never mind at the end of the day there are always MSETechies , well done all, who can offer support. I have never yet paid for an extended warranty since I said 29 3/4 years ago "for richer,for poorer, even until you stop sitting on my lap"

[Deleted User]

Take the warranty.

zzzLazyDaisy

Donnie wrote: »

It a warranty with Data Recovery as an addition.

Thanks for that - in that case I'd take the warranty.