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Netbooks Have Higher Failure Rate Than Laptops
Barence writes "Netbooks are more likely to fail within the first year than their more expensive laptop brethren, according to new research. SquareTrade, an independent US warranty provider, analyzed the failure rates of more than 30,000 laptops covered by its own warranties. It found that 5.8% of netbooks malfunctioned within the first year, compared to 4.7% for regular laptops and 4.2% for premium laptops costing more than $1,000. The research also raises question marks over the legendary reliability of Macs. Three PC manufacturers — Asus, Toshiba, and Sony — boasted better reliability rates than Apple. Macs have a 17.4% malfunction rate over three years, compared to market-leader Asus, which has a 15.6% failure rate. HP was the worst of the nine PC vendors listed, with a malfunction rate of 25.6% over three years."
Sometimes insightful looks into popular things really makes me sit back and think...
This just makes me say, "So what?"
"Most people, I think, don't even know what a rootkit is, so why should they care about it?"
Macs aren't more reliable, they just get less use (nothing important runs on them), so they take longer to wear out.
What is this? A report from the Maximegalon Institute of Slowly and Painfully Working Out the Surprisingly Obvious?
It doesn't help that many users abuse them.
My company recently got some for the execs and marketing pricks to use. You wouldn't believe some of the stuff that has happened to these netbooks, and I'm not talking about understandable stuff like coffee or Coke spilled on the keyboard.
We had one marketing guy who brought us his netbook with the screen broken off, and the base split in two. He claimed that his young son threw it out of a window onto their driveway.
The most unusual was from a VP who brought it back with shit all over the keyboard. His claim was that he was working while defecating, and it fell into the toilet. We believed him up until we had to transfer the data off, and found several pictures of people in fecal acts.
People just don't treat netbooks well. They consider them disposable (which they are, in a sense).
I'm from Canadia you insensitive clod!
+1 Disagree
"For less money" is how "cheaper" usually works, yes.
Maybe it's because Netbook motherboards have holes... http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:MSI_Wind_MB1.jpg
Camping on quad since 1996.
Knowing most consumers of netbooks, it probably fell in the toilet...
Yes, it's completely true. In fact, we had another C-level executive who'd brought me a netbook with a white crust which fused the hinges and the keyboard.
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I asked him what happened and he said that he had a technology fetish and had used his netbook as a glove to jerk himself off. He then broke out into a hot, flushing sweat as he described the clackety-clack of the keys brushing against his glans as he varied the friction by gripping the netbook shut more tightly
I asked him what he had running at the time and he said, "Seamonkey". Nyuk-nyuk-nyuk!
I can not see in any way how taking something apart and putting it back together repeatedly, occasionally ending up with extra pieces would effect the reliability of any product.
"Most people, I think, don't even know what a rootkit is, so why should they care about it?"
I thought the purpose was looking like a tool; sounds to me like you're accomplishing that just fine.