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Re: Asus, Toshiba Notebooks Top SquareTrade’s Reliability Figures

Jack — Fri, 15 Jan 2010 14:17:21 -0000

Quanta and Compal are actually the largest laptop makers, not HP and Gateway. Asus rounds out the top 5.
http://www.physorg.com/news...

Re: Asus, Toshiba Notebooks Top SquareTrade’s Reliability Figures

alex — Wed, 02 Dec 2009 11:19:00 -0000

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.

Re: Asus, Toshiba Notebooks Top SquareTrade’s Reliability Figures

filber28 — Sat, 21 Nov 2009 08:55:55 -0000

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.

Re: Asus, Toshiba Notebooks Top SquareTrade’s Reliability Figures

Conundrum — Fri, 20 Nov 2009 15:41:49 -0000

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.

Re: Asus, Toshiba Notebooks Top SquareTrade’s Reliability Figures

jsprusko — Fri, 20 Nov 2009 14:41:08 -0000

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).

Re: Asus, Toshiba Notebooks Top SquareTrade’s Reliability Figures

Ian Bell — Fri, 20 Nov 2009 14:20:53 -0000

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.

Re: Asus, Toshiba Notebooks Top SquareTrade’s Reliability Figures

Ian Bell — Fri, 20 Nov 2009 14:19:20 -0000

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.

Re: Asus, Toshiba Notebooks Top SquareTrade’s Reliability Figures

Anonymusing — Fri, 20 Nov 2009 14:03:24 -0000

Odd that this is the exact reverse of last year's SquareTrade report, when HP came out on top.

http://www.marketwire.com/p...

Re: Asus, Toshiba Notebooks Top SquareTrade’s Reliability Figures

Anthony Hook — Fri, 20 Nov 2009 14:02:34 -0000

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.