kinetic_be wrote:
Some of my own statistics for broken PC's/laptops over the past 10 months where the motherboard died and needed replacement, but because it's out of warranty, the costs are too high to replace.
Medion Laptop: 1
Medion PC: 4
Packard Bell Laptop: 1
Packard Bell PC: 0
Acer Laptop: 2
Acer PC: 3
HP PC: 3 (2 of them were just out of warranty)
HP Laptop: 9 (7 of them were just out of warranty - most of them are from the DV9000-series)
With Dell, Packard Bell, Sony Vaio, Mac, Samsung, Asus systems I never encountered faulty motherboards yet in that way that it needs replacement.
I won't say HP is a bad brand, but the numbers don't lie. The complaints about HP laptops worldwide are huge and a lot of factory-errors are not even supported, even though HP admitted two years ago that there were a lot of problems with their motherboards, going in conflict with Nvidia-cards. Repaircost: 500 $ when out of warranty. Problem is that most of them got broken, just out of warranty. Customer = screwed.
At the other hand, thanks to HP, I've managed to build up a huge amount of spareparts such as Hard drives, Memory, displays, Wireless cards, etc
Nevertheless, HP systems with good working hardware are working just fine.
Some of your numbers could simply be attributed to the percentage of the market each maker has. HP merged with Compaq to become the largest manufacturer so it stands to reason that you'll see more repairs of their products.
I don't think you can get a Packard Bell here in the states anymore.
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