Dear Friends,

One week until Christmas and there is no snow in the forecast for Vermont. Down here in Key West there are lights in palm trees and some fairly extravagant lighting displays. Our stores are busy helping with last minute Christmas shopping and Apple laptops, iPads and the new Apple TV seem to be on the top of a lot of folks’ lists this year.

We have refreshed our supply of Apple Certified Reconditioned iMacs and MacBook Airs. These are brought back to “as-new” condition by Apple and have the same 1-year Apple warranty as new Macs. They qualify for AppleCare as well which we strongly recommend for all of your Mac purchases. AppleCare is a great value for not only does it extend the warranty on your Mac and associated Apple peripherals such as AirPort base stations or displays from 1-year to 3-years but it extends the free Apple tech support from 90-days to 3-years as well. This comes in handy when you run into an annoying little problem and you need a solution for your Mac.

I had one of those dilemmas with my Apple Watch. I have never been able to answer phone calls with the watch and I was getting jealous of Grace acting like Dick Tracy all the time. So, I decided to chat Apple Support. The first guy I was chatting with was patient but actually didn’t seem like he knew the Apple Watch all that well. He had me reset, restart, wipe and set-up the Apple Watch as a new Apple Watch and still the problem persisted. Fortunately, I was accidentally disconnected from chat and when the new guy took over he told me it was a tap vs. push problem. Sure enough I was trying to push the answer button rather than tapping it and when I did tap it I got to fulfill my Dick Tracy fantasy, too. Now, if I could only get the calls answered on my Apple Watch to stream directly to my hearing aids.

This week’s Kibbles & Bytes special is the Apple Factory Reconditioned 21-inch iMac bundled with AppleCare. This will make a great Christmas present for those grandkids or anyone that has been really good this year. This iMac has the 2.7GHz i5 processor, 8GB of ram and a big 1TB drive. Our Mac the Halls special has this at $50 off and with a free set of Chill Pill Speakers for $1169.98. For Kibbles & Bytes readers until Christmas you can save an additional $25 and get this bundle for only $1144.98!