Notebook computers. Failure rate from SquareTrade, an Extended Warranty service company, is 15.6% to 26%. Note, 26% means that more than one out of every four broke. 15.6% is still not exactly good: imagine the doctor telling you “Yes, I know how to do this surgery really well, I only make serious mistakes 15.6% of the time.” What is that, more than one out of every seven patients dies?
Listed worst to best:
HP: 26%
Gateway: 23.5%
Acer 23.3%
Lenovo 21%
Dell 18.3%
Mac 17.3%
Sony 16.8%
Toshiba 15.7%
Asus 15.6%
See the entire slideshow at http://www.channelinsider.com/c/a/Spotlight/How-Good-is-that-PC-under-the-Tree-204989/?kc=EWKNLEDP12302009A