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Consumer Reports Gives Its Recommendation Back To Microsoft's Surface Laptops (theverge.com)
After pulling its recommendation in August, Consumer Reports announced that it is once again recommending Microsoft's Surface laptops. "Microsoft's reliability is now on-par with most other laptop brands," says Martin Lachter, a senior research associate at Consumer Reports. The Verge reports: Consumer Reports originally revoked its recommendations after a survey of 90,000 laptop and tablet owners found that 25 percent of Surface users reported having problems by the end of their second year owning the device. Its latest survey concluded that that's no longer the case (although the recommendation site didn't disclose the exact numbers for this year's polling). The newly re-gained recommendation applies to most of Microsoft's Surface lineup, including the Surface Pro, Surface Laptop, and Surface Book 2. Notably missing is the recently released 10-inch Surface Go, although that isn't getting the recommendation badge due to poor performance in Consumer Reports' lab testing, not reliability concerns.
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Of course maybe I'm just being cynical. But the again, the recommendation says that they are 'on-par with most other laptop brands'. And frankly I'm more willing to buy that everyone else is getting worse more than I'll buy the idea that Microsoft is getting better.
what exactly is that? and are they experts at pointing and clicking shinys ?
I bought a surface book when they first came out, but probably won't get another one. Eventually it experienced some problems and Microsoft's support was bad. It was a pretty neat piece of hardware, but not a good value all things considered.
I hate these things so much. I do tech support and have to deal with them when they are slow for no good reason. I think it is set to thermal throttle at like 66C or something. You can't fix it if something on it dies
It is a slow computer. Yes, you can buy a new slow computer.
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“These whores, they hear “rape”. Like, like Chelsea, she slammed me. I was not joking, I was being sarcastic. Listen to the speech. I do not laugh at my own jokes,” said Mr Duterte. “I will tell her, when your father, the president of the United States, was f***ing Lewinsky and the girls in the White House, how did you feel? Did you slam your father?”
Are there any women that I can shout at or talk over here? It's so frustrating having to answer their career-raping questions... It makes me want to SHOUT THEM DOWN TO PROVE MY INNOCENCE! I'm a rapesonable guy... I have daughters..
You've got the wrong website. This place is for gays only.
Try repairing one of those. Lot's of luck buddy. Glued shut, no parts available.
Dell is the king when it comes to laptops that are easy to repair. Parts are and instructions are readily available. Might not be the sexiest on the block but they are easy to keep functional and in top shape.
What could have possibly happened between August and now that would justify a recommendation? If 25% of people in August were reporting issues over the prior two years there is no way that could have come down significantly in one month.
Here is my https://youtu.be/0vmQOO4WLI4"> citation. Yes that guy did the review?!
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You may be thinking of commercial publications that choose names to try to sound like Consumer Reports, such as "Consumers Digest". Consumer Reports is very strict about not accepting any money from any company whose products they review and not having even the appearance of a conflic of interest. In fact, even creating the appearance of such a conflict of interest is grounds to remove a director from their board of directors, and to terminate any employee, as laid out in their bylaws and Conflict of Interest policy.
Here are their full audited financial statements so you can see exactly where they get their money from.
https://www.consumerreports.or...
They don't poll on laptops every month. I think they generally do each major product category once or twice a year. The August issue, printed in July and probably written in June, included the the results of a poll completed before June.
oh wow, what a coincidence.
The elephant in the room is: do you trust Microsoft? I don't. It will take quite a bit of commitment to dispel the bad taste left by four decennia of predatory behavior.
"Just Fucking Trust Us" --Satya Nadella
And if you believe that, I've got this great deal for you. It's an opportunity to make a lot of money, and not that much of an investment in a useful public-private partnership infrastructure project in the New York City area. You see, there's this bridge....
Consumer Reports has been behaving in a VERY fishy way in the last few years. No, I can't prove that they're on the take, but they've certainly been behaving like they are. There have been a lot of these "not recommended" ratings changed to "recommended" after getting some attention.
What could have possibly happened between August and now that would justify a recommendation?
An envelope filled with a large cash donation would be among my first guesses. There are some others but they seem less likely.
If 25% of people in August were reporting issues over the prior two years there is no way that could have come down significantly in one month.
Sure it could. You absolutely can reduce the incidence of quality issues very rapidly if you know what the problem is. The real question is whether this actually happened or whether CR screwed up their data collection.
As a former subscriber to CR, I lament the fact that they only test items that are for sale. 99% of the problems with computers stem from Windows itself. So say the donated working computers in our school with pink Best Buy repair stickers that have been converted to Linux. All of the owners donated the machines after being told that they were beyond repair.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?... I wish there were class action suits in Europe, ..! :-/