The article said:" in the first three years of ownership, nearly a third of laptops (31 percent) will fail" hmm the fail here mean, send in for repair or die, cos if send in to repair then yeah, me, Siew mo, ZW, Ed, Angela all done that, Vanya's HP gonna visit one or kena discard soon (rich people that one, crazy a bit edi gonna change it, not like us kena struggle - send it to repair hoping to pull him/her back from the gate of scrap metal)
"Some highlights about how, why, and which laptops fail:
> 20.4 percent of failures are due to hardware malfunctions. 10.6 percent are due to drops, spills, or other accidental damage.
> Netbooks have a roughly 20 percent higher failure rate due to hardware malfunctions than standard laptops. The more you pay for your laptop, the less likely it is to fail in general (maybe because you're more careful with it?).
> The most reliable companies? A shocker: Toshiba and Asus, both with below a 16 percent failure rate due to hardware malfunction.
> The least reliable brands? Acer, Gateway, and HP. HP's hardware malfunction rate, the worst in SquareTrade's analysis, is a whopping 25.6 percent.
Want to keep your notebook running for longer than a few years? Ensure your laptop is as drop-proofed as possible (use a padded bag or case, route cords so they won't be tripped on, lock children in another room), and protect it as best you can from heat and dust."
Okie i probably agree with expensive one last longer cos we sayang it more the $$ eh, so maybe i shud had throw in a couple more hundred in and get myself a Sony?? but of cos i sayang my Acer even though it's not as expensive as Sony's, i broke the Cd/DVD thing which is probably not my fault, i mean come on before the flight, it play music just fine, after some x-ray, it die, didn't even drop it, heat it etc Now the typical 'old' pc problem lah, getting slow, webcam die for no reason (didn't even use it leh), then some software, most noticeable one, the burn cd programme jst go crazy itself and require to reinstall everytime i wanna use it, darn it~ The slowness probably indicating i need a bigger ram, i mean i edi do whatever i can inside to make it fast, after seeing Angela's toshiba, i feel so much better now, at least my Acer is way faster hahaha~ but now balik using the home new pc, aiyoh Acer lagging lah~ i gave up... as long as it don't slow till cannot do anything, i jst live with it like that lah, the more i fix the more gila it get later
Anyway back to the article and apparently, Acer is in the list of unreliable!! and Toshiba one, don't really get that sentence, mean it's reliable or not, what's the shocking refer? (oh no my englrissh is gone bad liao~) Looking at Lala's toshiba, i still think my Acer better than her's leh~ and hmm... Compaq and Dell not on the list, maybe i should try Compaq and Dell next time? but dell kinda boring lah the design.... as for HP eh no comment... Asus i heard it's cheap if we go buy in taiwan, and made in taiwan forever sound better than made in china lah~ no this is not bias, it's the fact for electronic goods from my past experience, whatever make in china just die faster, like my mp3s. Now am using Made in Korea one, quite nice :P but no more made in korea phone for me, my LG is stupid! Vanya's LG make both of us a bit extra sensitive to the silence on phone cos her phone always secretly cut the line itself! It's sucks when it make u go on and on talking for another 2-3 mins before u discover the other is not listening cos the line is cut! (off topic again~)
The advice, the first one can easily done if exercise with care, as for the heat, kinda impossible if we are in Malaysia and don's have aircorn (for those live in dorm) or don have $$ to open aircorn all day~ me belong to use fan in daytime kinda people. As for dust, eh me pretty sure my laptop is full of it, and there's nothing i can done here, blame the pollution.
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