{"id":605555,"date":"2009-11-17T12:00:42","date_gmt":"2009-11-17T17:00:42","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.crunchgear.com\/?p=125109"},"modified":"2009-11-17T12:00:42","modified_gmt":"2009-11-17T17:00:42","slug":"asus-and-toshiba-winners-of-reliability-survey-don%e2%80%99t-ask-about-hp","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/605555","title":{"rendered":"ASUS and Toshiba winners of reliability survey, don\u2019t ask about HP"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.crunchgear.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/11\/malfunctionrate.jpg\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-125116\" title=\"malfunctionrate\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.crunchgear.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/11\/malfunctionrate.jpg?resize=620%2C365\" alt=\"malfunctionrate\" width=\"620\" height=\"365\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>SquareTrade, proprietors of extended warranties, just released a 3-year study that sheds some light on the reliability of laptops and netbooks. The main conclusion that 1 in 3 notebooks fail within three year should come as no surprise. After all, they are portable computers that get banged around. It&#8217;s the nature of the beast. However, the study does reveal some other interesting tid-bits, including a handy graph the shows the malfunction rate of the top nine laptop manufacturers.<\/p>\n<p>Feel free to read the whole study <a href=\"http:\/\/www.squaretrade.com\/pages\/laptop-reliability-1109\">here<\/a>, but here are the main points.<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>31% of notebooks suffer a total failure rate before 3 years<\/li>\n<li>Netbooks fail 20% more often than laptops<\/li>\n<li>5.8% of netbooks malfunction within the first 12 months<\/li>\n<li>Asus has the best 3-year malfunction rate at 15.6%<\/li>\n<li>HP has the worst 3-year malfunction rate at 25.6%<\/li>\n<li>You might want a\u00a0warranty<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/feedads.g.doubleclick.net\/~at\/5ynSQCqQicOLVbbGy4X9CkrYXjM\/0\/da\"><img src=\"http:\/\/feedads.g.doubleclick.net\/~at\/5ynSQCqQicOLVbbGy4X9CkrYXjM\/0\/di\" border=\"0\" ismap=\"true\"><\/img><\/a><br\/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/feedads.g.doubleclick.net\/~at\/5ynSQCqQicOLVbbGy4X9CkrYXjM\/1\/da\"><img src=\"http:\/\/feedads.g.doubleclick.net\/~at\/5ynSQCqQicOLVbbGy4X9CkrYXjM\/1\/di\" border=\"0\" ismap=\"true\"><\/img><\/a><\/p><div class=\"feedflare\">\n<a href=\"http:\/\/feeds.feedburner.com\/~ff\/crunchgear?a=pWhaEmEK7kg:ei8HUgmrz_Y:V_sGLiPBpWU\"><img src=\"http:\/\/feeds.feedburner.com\/~ff\/crunchgear?i=pWhaEmEK7kg:ei8HUgmrz_Y:V_sGLiPBpWU\" border=\"0\"><\/img><\/a> <a href=\"http:\/\/feeds.feedburner.com\/~ff\/crunchgear?a=pWhaEmEK7kg:ei8HUgmrz_Y:F7zBnMyn0Lo\"><img src=\"http:\/\/feeds.feedburner.com\/~ff\/crunchgear?i=pWhaEmEK7kg:ei8HUgmrz_Y:F7zBnMyn0Lo\" border=\"0\"><\/img><\/a> <a href=\"http:\/\/feeds.feedburner.com\/~ff\/crunchgear?a=pWhaEmEK7kg:ei8HUgmrz_Y:yIl2AUoC8zA\"><img src=\"http:\/\/feeds.feedburner.com\/~ff\/crunchgear?d=yIl2AUoC8zA\" border=\"0\"><\/img><\/a>\n<\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>SquareTrade, proprietors of extended warranties, just released a 3-year study that sheds some light on the reliability of laptops and netbooks. The main conclusion that 1 in 3 notebooks fail within three year should come as no surprise. After all, they are portable computers that get banged around. It&#8217;s the nature of the beast. However, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":288,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"advanced_seo_description":"","jetpack_seo_html_title":"","jetpack_seo_noindex":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[4821],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-605555","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p9NivD-2xx1","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/605555","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/288"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=605555"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/605555\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=605555"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=605555"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=605555"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}