A few years ago SquareTrade, who is a 3rd party warranty provider, published their results on laptop reliability over a three year period. Summary is that all manufacturers were bad. Within three years 1 in 3 laptops failed and even the best manufacturers had a failure rate of 1 in 10.
http://www.squaretrade.com/laptop-reliability-1109 Richard On Monday January 7 2013 08:08:19 Joshua Marsh <[email protected]> wrote: > Some of the companies and laptops with negative reviews in this post are > interesting to me. I've owned and loved many of them. I've noticed this > since I bought a Packard Bell back in '94 or so. My friends bashed the > company and the product, but it worked great for me. I was even able to > install a new modem despite them being sure it would never work. I wonder > if it has to do with the user, a bad factory run, or fate. Maybe I'm just > lucky. > > > On Mon, Jan 7, 2013 at 7:32 AM, Joseph Hall <[email protected]> wrote: > > > On Mon, Jan 7, 2013 at 7:11 AM, Jeff Jibson <[email protected]> > > wrote: > > > I will avoid HP like the plague.... <snip> > > On that note, I will never give buy an ASUS notebook. <snip> /* PLUG: http://plug.org, #utah on irc.freenode.net Unsubscribe: http://plug.org/mailman/options/plug Don't fear the penguin. */
