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The popularity of netbook is caused not only the attractive cost - the elder netbook models on their functional saturation and price outdistanced the budget notebook models with larger screen.
With the reference to the results of SquareTrade investigating, in which participated 30 000 mobile computers, which are found on the three year after-sales service, netbook fail in the first year of operation on average by 20% more frequently than their full-scale analog. In three year interval this index increases to 22% for inexpensive netbook, and breaks on the reliability between netbook and expensive notebook can reach 39%.
The frequency of technical defect manifestation is distributed as follows over the three year interval:
- Asus and Toshiba - > 16%;
- Sony - > 16,8%;
- Apple - > 17,4%;
- Dell - > 18,3%;
- Lenovo - > 21,5%;
- Acer and Gateway - > less than 24%;
- Hewlett-Packard - > 25,6%.
Last place in this rating occupies HP - most important producer of computers in the world. On the sums of two-year operations the defects are manifested approximately in the same quantity of as netbook HP and in notebook asus or Toshiba on the sums of three year operation. A study also showed that hardware defects become the reason for failure of netbook two times more frequently than accidents through the fault of user. Related Products :
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