Having seen both my daughters ibooks fail before my trusty old Toshiba which still trundles on regardless, I am never enamoured of Apple reliability, latest issue is all of her model have a design flaw, where the lid when closed pressures the touchpad housing and it cracks off, Apple are fixing without question out of warranty, just as well, but what a major flaw in basic design. Other daughter had at least 3 ipods under warranty as well.
And I hope this isn't indicative of the pricing
http://cgi.ebay.co.uk/Apple-iPad-tab...item439cf9f48f