Who makes the most reliable computers?

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Who makes the most reliable computers? Lenovo, closely followed by Apple, if you believe online service and support company Rescuecom's latest reliability audit, derived from more than 20,000 calls made by the firm's customers during the second quarter this year.

Rescuecom assigned a reliability rating to computer vendors. Lenovo, in its guise as provider of IBM desktops and notebooks, scored 243. Apple attained 201. Third-placed HP/Compaq scored a mere 12. Dell's rating was 4, Gateway -12 and all the rest together scored -16.

What's in a number? According to Rescuecom, the scores factor each vendor's US market share - the data's from Gartner, it said, and covered the last four years - against the number of support calls the company received for each manufacturer's products. The result is a measure of how likely it is to receive a cry of help regarding a given vendor's offering, all other factors - like the fact there are a lot more Dells out there than Macs - being equal.

http://www.reghardware.co.uk/2006/10/16/rescuecom_reliability_audit/

PS:

I have a Lenovo laptop :).
 
LOL, I always say the best PC you can buy is the cheapest peace of crap you can find that will suite your needs.
At the end of the day, its the same technology and is completely obsolete within 2 years.
3 Years ago I bought a HP/Compaq for 22 g's and today it is worth squat.
Yet if it was a HingHongHo special for 6 g's I would today be 16 g's better off :D
 
ProAsm said:
LOL, I always say the best PC you can buy is the cheapest peace of crap you can find that will suite your needs.
At the end of the day, its the same technology and is completely obsolete within 2 years.
3 Years ago I bought a HP/Compaq for 22 g's and today it is worth squat.
Yet if it was a HingHongHo special for 6 g's I would today be 16 g's better off :D
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i've learned that too...
 
Ja, I was also going to say the ones I build! :(

Well any prebuilt one is never exactly what you want and always over priced, I hate a PC that comes with some company logo in system properties or as your BIOS load screen.
 
Yep, exactly what im thinking of. I once put a hard drive which a friend stole from work into my PC and it didnt have a POST screen or anything to my surprise, but a huge Mecer logo. wtf, that just causes problems..
 
I'd have to agree with the facts, just bought another IBM (broke for a while) and my previous computer was great! My brother got 2 Acers in a row and in my opinion, they both ... not great.
 
What makes people's computers not last long is when they kid themselves into spending huge sums of money in the hope that an off the shelf computer will last. that won't happen with pre-built computers.

4 a person who always had expensive and or high end equipment, they can make that 20K last far longer than a person who makes a one time purchase.
 
I have never bought a pc off the shelf and (unless i'm permanently hospitalised in a vegitative state and a family member buys one on my behalf because they think that would be my final wish even though my testament states otherwise) i never will!

I do tend to use Gigabyte more when building.
They have better resale value and i have never experianced any problems.
They even use solid caps on they'r mobo's
 
But everybody uses solid caps on their motherboards these days. :)
 
Loman said:
NOPE

Foxxcon for one.
Not sure about the others.
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I just built a cheap ass computer with a foxconn mobo, and well, I could swear I saw some solid caps on it.

But it's all marketing anyways, I have some ancient 386's in the garage which wouldn't even know what a solid cap is, I'm sure they'd still work, Hell I even found some antique apple the other day and that still worked. :cool:
Ekhaatvensters said:
I hate a PC that comes with some company logo in system properties or as your BIOS load screen.
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:o

Erm... well, my computers come with my company logo in the system properties... does that make me a bad person? :o
 
But it's all marketing anyways, I have some ancient 386's in the garage which wouldn't even know what a solid cap is, I'm sure they'd still work, Hell I even found some antique apple the other day and that still worked.
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Doesn't really matter cause before it starts to leak electrolyte it already needed an upgrade.

Just because its built before the ice age doesn't mean it's caps should have failed.
There are various reasons why caps fail, some boards will last a lifetime before a cap failure, others would seem to last long because they are up in the attic since 1980.
My prefered choice would be gigabyte. Them using solid caps is a bonus.

Caps can be changed and though i've never done it on a motherboard it shoudn't be the deciding factor for buying a mobo.;)
 
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