In: Acer, Acer Aspire Laptops, Acer TravelMate, Apple, Asus, Dell, Dell Inspiron Laptops, Dell Latitude, Dell Precision Laptops, Dell Studio, Dell Vostro Laptops, Dell XPS Laptops, Gateway, HP, HP Compaq Laptops, HP EliteBook, HP Envy, HP Mini, MiniNote, HP Pavilion Laptops, HP ProBook, Lenovo, Lenovo 3000, Lenovo IdeaPad, Lenovo ThinkPad, Sony, Sony VAIO, Toshiba Portege, Toshiba Qosmio, Toshiba Satellite, Toshiba Tecra
By Danijel Zivkovic
The most reliable laptops in the market are those from Asus, Toshiba, and Sony, followed by Apple and Dell, according to a Sqare Trade’s reasearch which is based on a 3-year malfunction rates projection.
The failure rates for Asus, Toshiba, Sony, Apple and Dell notebooks are 15.6, 15.7, 16.8, 17.4, and 18.3 percent, respectively.
The warranty company reports that laptops with the highest malfunction rates are HP’s (25.6%), Gateway’s (23.5%), Acer’s (23.3%), and Lenovo’s (21.5%).
“In first 3 years of ownership, 31% of laptop owners reported a failure to SquareTrade. Two-thirds of this failure (20.4%) came from hardware malfunctions, and one-third (10.6%) was reported as accidental damage,” the research says.
It’s also revealed that netbooks are projected to have a 20% higher failure rate from hardware malfunctions than standard laptops.
