Hver tredje laptop feiler innen tre år

Kom over denne korte rapporten fra forsikringsselskapet SquareTrade:

Synopsis: SquareTrade analyzed failure rates for over 30,000 new laptop computers covered by SquareTrade Laptop Warranty plans and found that one-third of all laptops will fail within 3 years. Highlights of the study include:

• Looking at the 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.
• Netbooks are projected to have a 20% higher failure rate from hardware malfunctions than more expensive laptop computers.
• ASUS and Toshiba were the most reliable manufacturers, with fewer than 16% having a hardware malfunction over 3 years.

http://www.squaretrade.com/pages/laptop-reliability-1109/

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