harmattan
Supreme [H]ardness
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http://www.electronista.com/articles/09/11/17/reliability.study.has.apple.4th.place/
Of course the problem with this study is they do not separate lines of laptops, for instance dell precision laptops, ya never seen one break personally. In general the business laptops seem to be more durable, probably because they all of on site repair contracts and dell does not want to actually do that. On the other hand apple only makes 1 line now the pro which is basically similar to dell business, so is it fair to compare to say acer whom to my knowledge does not make any higher end line. Would be nice if they also took the average sale price and divided them to get a normalized to cost reliability.
You can see this in their break down where more expensive laptops seem to be more reliable, then again if you buy a $200 netbook you probably are not as careful with it as you are with a $2500 alienware....
There are three other reasons that come to mind as to why AW laptops are "prone" to failure:
- They normally have hardware that runs at higher speeds and suck up more energy. GPUs, in particular -- something that most business-focused laptops don't have -- can break
- They need to run at or close to red-line levels to play games, run benches etc. Most other laptops don't need to operate under heavy load for long times
- AW users are, by nature, tinkerers which drives up the breakage volume