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Entry Posted January 4, 2006

http://www.macintouch.com/reliability/laptops.html Somewhat interesting report on the reliability of Apple laptops, a subject somewhat close to my heart. I suspect the absolute numbers aren’t reliable—people would have been more likely to actually complete the survey if their machine had required a repair—but the differences in failure rates between machines, and components of machines, is interesting. The hard drive on my model of 12" PowerBook, for example, is about twice a likely to have been replaced as the average. (I had to get mine replaced.)

(Someone should also use this data to figure out if the (extremely expensive) extended warranty is in fact worthwhile.) 10:42

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