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Digital Trends: Asus, Toshiba Notebooks Top SquareTrade’s Reliability Figures

  • Anonymusing · 2 months ago
    Odd that this is the exact reverse of last year's SquareTrade report, when HP came out on top.

    http://www.marketwire.com/press-release/Squaret...
  • Ian Bell · 2 months ago
    I always have to wonder how accurate these reports are. I have a MacBook Air with a regular non-SSD hard drive in it, and I throw that thing around like crazy. It works great and I have not had any problems with it.
  • alex · 2 months ago
    Your MAC do not have a MAC hard drive, the hard drive is a regular seagate, maxtor, wd hard drive (the same you will see in windows), so the fact that your lap is an APPLE don't mean anything. Perhaps you have an Solid hd.
  • Anthony Hook · 2 months ago
    One thing that I'm wondering is exactly what is failing. Is it an issue of carrying it around and having a hard drive go bad? For instance, I have a SSD in my EEE and I won't have any problems with data loss due to carrying it around every day and having to worry about a non solid-state hard drive. I guess I'd like to know more.
  • Ian Bell · 2 months ago
    My guess is that a lot of the failures are due to poor circulation and heat issues. We have some notebooks here at DT (I work for Digital Trends) that we have had on long-term loan, and when they do fail, it's almost always because a fan went out, or something overheated.
  • Scott · 2 months ago
    Well my company has ordered for my office approximately 40 HP 2510p small form laptops...failure rate for bad motherboards 82.5% (33 out of 40).
  • Conundrum · 2 months ago
    Buy business class products. If you by retail garbage you get what you pay for. Squaretrade doesn't handle business class stuff as a rule. Comparing an HP dv9000 to an HP/Compaq nc6220 is like night and day. The home user ones just don't compare. They are cheap and alot of small businesses buy them until they learn why they shouldn't.
  • filber28 · 2 months ago
    Anyone else here thing it's pretty convenient that the 2nd largest laptop maker in the world came out 2nd last and the world's largest laptop maker came in last?? I wonder if the reporting source (a warranty company) might have something to gain from this. LOL This is no coincidence believe me.
  • Jack · 3 weeks ago
    Quanta and Compal are actually the largest laptop makers, not HP and Gateway. Asus rounds out the top 5.
    http://www.physorg.com/news98005202.html