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Most laptops have a 20% failure rate - Chart
Brandon Davenport
A new study published by SquareTrade revealed that the smaller name brand notebook manufacturers are usually more reliable than their larger rivals. This should either make you cry, or laugh at the other people who got the crappy laptops. This chart is the 3-year service history of more than 30,000 laptops, which you know you're dying to know more about. Firstly, netbooks have shown themselves to be on average 20 percent less reliable than entry-level laptops. On the other hand, entry level laptops are 10 percent more likely to break down than premium machines.
Wait, hold on -- let me get this straight, you get what you pay for? Yup, what a concept, eh? So that Acer you thought was a steal at $400 will soon enough have a 23% chance of crapping out on you (if it has not already). ASUS and Toshiba (not surprisingly) share the winner's spoils, while HP sulks in a corner with the title of last place, or in other words, a quarter of all their laptops will fail in 3 years.
[Via Engadget - Electronista]
