Reliable Laptop besides Apple

Lawnchairman

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Whats the most reliable laptop/notebook on the market now. Take into consideration no downtime,software issues and common problems. Looking at a stable windows platform and decent battery life. The usual contenders are Lenovo,Toshiba, Sony, Dell etc...:p
 
Lenovo Thinkpad (not standard Lenovo - must be Thinkpas series - old IBM).

Tough and stable...
 
Thinkpad's have good build quality, also Asus got top ratings for reliability.
 
+1 for ASUS. No idea why people do not look at them. 2 year world wide warranty and 1 year accidental warranty standard.
 
You get really great sturdy HP laptops, and then cheap consumery type HP laptops.

Same with the Lenovo's - they have some super cheap stuff then some really great laptops (Thinkpads)

So one shouldn't generalize across an entire brand like that.
 
Synaesthesia said:
You get really great sturdy HP laptops, and then cheap consumery type HP laptops.

Same with the Lenovo's - they have some super cheap stuff then some really great laptops (Thinkpads)

So one shouldn't generalize across an entire brand like that.
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"HP are no.1" is a generalist statement as well no?
Besides I just figured he read the graph backwards :p

No harm done, I wouldn't rule out buying an HP myself. I do own an Acer which isn't far off according to article
 
Drake2007 said:
Those are shipment volumes, maybe you were looking for this, and Lenovo's response ...
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In the 30,000 laptops which were part of the study of failure rates requiring after-sales warranty service, Apple was beaten in reliability by Toshiba and Sony. Further, Asus managed to pip everyone to the post, coming in at the lowest failure rate of all - just 15.6 percent of Asus machines required warranty repairs over a three-year period.

Despite Apple's relatively poor showing - at 17.4 percent over three years - it still managed to beat business staples including Dell, Lenovo, and Hewlett-Packard - with the latter managing an astoundingly bad 25.6 percent projected failure rate over a three-year period.

SquareTrade's vice president Vince Tseng said of the study that "it's not really surprising that Apple's in the middle of the pack," but that "what was surprising was that Asus came out on top."
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Not really surprising if you have an Asus and a Sony :D
 
Drake2007 said:
Those are shipment volumes, maybe you were looking for this, and Lenovo's response ...
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SquareTrade? Whoever they are.

As Gorman says:
"while the study looked at data from 30,000 laptops from nine manufacturers and across three different categories, in an industry which shipped 142.5 million laptops last year the "total number claimed in this report is not a statistically significant sample for a study where no attempt is made to control key variables affecting repair rates, such as comparable machine types, end users, geography, and applications."
 
It's all stats and anyway if it's done on a level playing field the figures probably hold up in the real world to some extent. Either way the Gartner report is all the industry has to go on for the specific measurement that the OP is looking for.
 
Thinkpad! It will rule till the end of days or until Lenovo fscks up a god brand ;)
 
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