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    Laptop Failures by Manufacturer

    Discussion in 'Hardware Components and Aftermarket Upgrades' started by Serg, Nov 17, 2009.

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    A Square Trade report (PDF) has given the next results as far as laptop failures go by manufacturer:

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    Where Asus has been placed as the most reliable company on the laptop manufacturing, and larger brands, such as HP are placed last.

    The higher volume companies largely see significantly worse long-term prospects. While Dell is only slightly less reliable, failure rates jump significantly for Lenovo, Acer and its sub-label Gateway. HP fares the worst with about 16 percent of its portables breaking down.


    It's nonetheless to mention that notebooks as a whole are historically unreliable compared to other electronics as their nature leads not only to abuse of hard drives and other components but also accidents. Over three years, it's believed as much as 31 percent of notebooks will either fail of their own accord or suffer drops that render them inoperable.
     
    Serg, Nov 17, 2009
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