Apple is finally offering Applecare on displays purchased separately. The following was in the latest SmallDog newsletter:

AppleCare for Displays

Apple finally has filled a big hole in their AppleCare lineup with the introduction of AppleCare for Apple Displays. This has always been an issue. If you did not buy your Apple display at the same time and on the same invoice as your Mac, you had no way of covering your display. This would be problematic whenever a customer decided at the last minute to buy that 30-inch Cinema display to go with her G5 or if a customer wanted the high-definition, high-quality Apple display but planned to use it on one of those other PCs.

Now Apple has addressed this issue by introducing AppleCare for Apple Displays. This product is priced at $99 and extends the 90 days of free technical support from Apple to 3 years and extends the hardware warranty protection from 1 year to 3 years. You must have at least some of the Apple warranty left on your Apple display in order to purchase AppleCare for Apple Displays. However, the increased tech support coverage leads us to recommend that you purchase AppleCare for your display within the first 90 days.

Other AppleCare products remain unchanged. AppleCare Protection Plans for Mac mini, Power Mac, and MacBook Pro/PowerBook will continue to cover a single Apple display when the display and Mac are purchased at the same time.

Small Dog Electronics offers Kibbles & Bytes customers special pricing on AppleCare for displays at $79.

Thanks! The original 1 year warranty expires on my 30" Cinema Display on 1/30/2006!!!! I was always ticked that Apple didn't offer separate coverage on displays that you didn't buy with a CPU. Great News in the nick of time.

Having just had motherboards 3 and 4 and a new power supply installed in my G5 iMac this week, I appreciate and know the value of AppleCare!