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One in three laptops fail over three years, with Asus, Toshiba and Apple outranking lowest scoring Hewlett-Packard, according to a study.

A study by SquareTrade, an online vendor of extended warranties, says 20.4 percent of laptops fail over three years.

You get in line well before midnight in front of your favorite electronics store so you can save hundreds of dollars on a laptop or netbook computer during a Black Friday sale.

MORRISVILLE, N.C. Ray Gorman, head of media relations at Lenovo , has come out of his corner swinging in a PR bout with an after-market warranty firm that has questioned the reliability of the world's No.

As it turns out, you really do get what you pay for. Premium laptops have a low failure rate of only 18.1%. While that does seem like a high failure rate, it is quickly put into perspective with the knowledge that entry level laptops are at 20.6% and netbooks are even worse at 25.1%. However, while netbooks do fail 20% more than an entry level ...

New data from SquareTrade says Asus and Toshiba have the least hardware malfunctions over 3 years, while one-in-four HP laptops are projected to experience problems.

Customers visit a store selling Acer Inc products in Shanghai, China, on Nov. 12. Acer is the world s third-largest maker of personal computers.

Electronista received a report by SquareTrade that compares the reliability of notebook brands.

A study of more than 30,000 laptops and netbooks has revealed which laptops are the most dependable and which one has a projected failure rate of 25%. New data from SquareTrade says Asus and Toshiba have the least hardware malfunctions over 3 years, while one-in-four HP laptops are projected to experience problems.

Lenovo has called shenanigans on a SquareTrade study that claimed poor reliability from its laptops.

In a recent study conducted by SquareTrade, it seems that Asus has the best track record in terms of notebook reliability.

You just brought home a shiny new notebook. You didn't pay too much for it, but it does what you need, and a little more.

ASI's IQ17-D2: Is Mobility Radeon HD 3870 X2 Still Fast Enough? After the launch of ATI's Cypress and Juniper parts, ATI's Mobility Radeon 3870 X2 is now three generations old.

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.

November 17, 2009, 02:59 PM - Asus, Toshiba and Sony laptops may be more reliable than MacBooks according to research from Squaretrade, but within a few years, a lot of laptop owners will have trouble regardless of brand.

As most laptops are essentially commodity products, comprised of the same stock list of components and parts, one might assume that all laptop brands are the same, at least as far as the general reliability of the hardware itself.

A study by independent warranty business SquareTrade Inc. found that one in three laptop computers fail within the first three years they're owned, and that small netbooks fail more frequently.

According to a new study by research firm SquareTrade, Apple is fairly reliable, but not the most reliable company of all, when it comes to notebooks.

Apple's line of laptops ranked fourth in a multi-year reliability survey of nine notebook makers, according to a study of 30,000 portable computers published today by a company that provides after-sale warranties.

Happy shoppers tend to be more risk-averse, so they are more likely to choose extended warranties on products, according to new research.