Comments on: Asus, Toshiba Notebooks Top SquareTrade’s Reliability Figures

By: Adult

Adult — Mon, 07 Feb 2011 13:59:04 +0000

Yeah, and in 12 months "many" companys change part suppliers, cut back on QC and cut corners as needed all in an effort to increase PROFITS! So, yeah I can see HP taking a header over 12 months!

Remember, GiGo…Garbage in Garbage out!

By: Jack

Jack — Fri, 15 Jan 2010 16:17:21 +0000

Quanta and Compal are actually the largest laptop makers, not HP and Gateway. Asus rounds out the top 5.
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By: alex

alex — Wed, 02 Dec 2009 13:19:00 +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.

By: filber28

filber28 — Sat, 21 Nov 2009 10:55:55 +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.

By: Conundrum

Conundrum — Fri, 20 Nov 2009 17:41:49 +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.

By: Scott

Scott — Fri, 20 Nov 2009 16:41:08 +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).

By: Ian Bell

Ian Bell — Fri, 20 Nov 2009 16:20:53 +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.

By: Ian Bell

Ian Bell — Fri, 20 Nov 2009 16:19:20 +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.

By: Anonymusing

Anonymusing — Fri, 20 Nov 2009 16:03:24 +0000

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

http://www.marketwire.com/press-release/Squaretrade-888128.html“ rel=”nofollow”>http://www.marketwire.com/press-release/Squaret…

By: Anthony Hook

Anthony Hook — Fri, 20 Nov 2009 16:02:34 +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.