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Reader Comments (Page 1 of 3)
David said 5:35PM on 11-17-2009
People buy Squaretrade warranties for electronics/computers they bought on eBay. I think that, alone, says that all of the numbers are skewed artificially high.
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hmlong said 6:52PM on 11-17-2009
Reading from the PDF, "...failure data from a sample of over 30,000 new laptops purchased by SquareTrade customers over the past three years."
Note that it says "new laptops". That said, where are people buying them and getting hooked into SquareTrade agreements and not with AppleCare?
phobic99 said 5:38PM on 11-17-2009
In other news, the sky is blue and grass is still green.
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pax copia said 9:39PM on 11-17-2009
This just in (at the same time); MacBooks less reliable than many other "books".
See chart for more info.
Ben said 5:38PM on 11-17-2009
VAIO laptops are the most unreliable of them all....
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Mr. Fry said 6:42PM on 11-17-2009
No see, the article means that they are not. That's where you've gotten mixed up. You can't extrapolate your own experience to everyone else.
Sammyb said 5:44PM on 11-17-2009
Macbooks aren't netbooks - so why would you compare them? Apples and Oranges anyone?
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Monica Dickey said 7:45PM on 11-17-2009
Might as well call this "$1000 notebooks more reliable than $300 netbooks"
Also nice that some HP flash ad is taking up half of the article somehow hahaha
Yakov Hadash said 8:11AM on 11-19-2009
lol
waiownsyou said 5:44PM on 11-17-2009
Wait, so is this purely hardware malfunctions or is it just tech newbs unknowingly calling adware they got on their own as unreliable for their computer
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Zack said 5:45PM on 11-17-2009
80/20 baby http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pareto_principle
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Jordan said 5:49PM on 11-17-2009
This just in: PC laptops are more reliable than netbooks.
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mikemaj82 said 5:50PM on 11-17-2009
Uhhh..there are more netbooks out there than macbooks? lol I hope they took that into account when throwing out failure rate statistics and percentages.
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tinyj316 said 6:01PM on 11-17-2009
Slow news day?
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Joshua Ochs said 6:05PM on 11-17-2009
Excuse me? Asus seems to be the most reliable of all, and they invented the netbook market with the Eee.
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Chris said 10:25PM on 11-17-2009
@Joshua Ochs
Exactly, and the Asus Eee also makes a decent Hackbook, although Apple is trying to make it harder to pull off. It is at least interesting to note that Apple is finally lowering their prices somewhat (1 GB of DDR3 SDRAM is now $150 instead of $250).
ABCNEWSER.com said 6:09PM on 11-17-2009
"A note of personal interest, had I purchased a Vaio all those years ago rather than a Presario, I might never have switched to Mac."
There's a shirt for that. (Sort of)
http://www.cafepress.com/+if_it_wasnt_for_vista_dark_tshirt,259058780
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BeyondtheTech said 6:43PM on 11-17-2009
Thanks, I didn't know my designs were THAT popular!
ABCNEWSER.com said 8:03PM on 11-17-2009
You designed that? It looks great. I like how the font is a modern font for "Vista" and "Mac OS X." Usually those shirts have really stupid fonts that don't match the quality standards of a Mac user. I would buy it, but I'm thinking about getting the "First 30 Years" Apple timeline shirt instead.
http://www.insanelygreattees.com/shirt/timeline
variaas said 6:11PM on 11-17-2009
Wow at first I thought this article was about another reliability report after reading (http://theappleblog.com/2009/11/17/apple-ranks-a-lackluster-fourth-in-notebook-reliability-study), but no, both articles are off the same study. One just has more spin than the other.
No one else here is mystified by Apple coming in 4th in reliability? Is 'above average' good enough now?
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