It's hard to know whether the $349 I spent on Applecare is the best money I've ever spent or whether the $2299 I spent on a TiBook two-and-a-half years ago is the worst money I've ever spent, but it's one or the other. My laptop is now at the Apple Repair Ranch in Texas for the fourth time, getting it's third motherboard (counting the original). I'm typing this blog post from the firm's standard-issue IBM Thinkpad. Every time the TiBook goes back into the shop I wonder why I don't just use the ThinkPad all the time.