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1 in 3 laptops fail over 3 years

leninbenjamin · 2009-11-23 19:23:29

and Netbooks are 20% more likely to fail than a standard laptop, which are 2% more likely to fail than a premium laptop. All part of the conclusions of a squaretrade laptop reliability survey (taking 30,000 machines into account). PDF here They rank the brands too.* Asus 16% * Toshiba 16% * Sony 17% * Apple 17% * Dell 18%…

23-11-2009 7:23pm

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and Netbooks are 20% more likely to fail than a standard laptop, which are 2% more likely to fail than a premium laptop. All part of the conclusions of a squaretrade laptop reliability survey (taking 30,000 machines into account).

PDF here

They rank the brands too.
Asus 16%

Toshiba 16%

Sony 17%

Apple 17%

Dell 18%

Lenovo 22%

Acer 23%

Gateway 24%

HP 26%

Interesting enough little report. Thought Apple would have been higher than that myself. And makes all the Dell haters look a bit foolish tbh.

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