With the exception of Apple and LG, the latest Consumer Reports data has all the others at about the same level of mediocrity in reliability -- hardly surprising since most notebooks are built from the same parts, obtained from the same small pool of manufacturers (components like chips, drives, RAM, etc.) and designed and built by the same contractors.
Apple's ranking probably has more to do with service and support (when you charge 50-100% more for equivalent hardware, you can afford to provide that) and LG is more of a specialist manufacturer that does -- like Samsung -- make some of its own devices rather than contract them out to Wistron, Compal, Quanta, and Pegatron -- which is where all the others come from, regardless of name outside.
The best defense is a 3-year warranty on any system, since the failure rate is not insubstantial, or in the case of Apple, repairs are breathtakingly expensive.
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With the exception of Apple and LG, the latest Consumer Reports data has all the others at about the same level of mediocrity in reliability -- hardly surprising since most notebooks are built from the same parts, obtained from the same small pool of manufacturers (components like chips, drives, RAM, etc.) and designed and built by the same contractors.
Apple's ranking probably has more to do with service and support (when you charge 50-100% more for equivalent hardware, you can afford to provide that) and LG is more of a specialist manufacturer that does -- like Samsung -- make some of its own devices rather than contract them out to Wistron, Compal, Quanta, and Pegatron -- which is where all the others come from, regardless of name outside.
The best defense is a 3-year warranty on any system, since the failure rate is not insubstantial, or in the case of Apple, repairs are breathtakingly expensive.