Who makes the most reliable computers? Lenovo, closely followed by Apple, if you believe online service and support company Rescuecom's latest reliability audit, derived from more than 20,000 calls made by the firm's customers during the second quarter this year. Rescuecom assigned a reliability rating to computer vendors. Lenovo, in its guise as provider of IBM desktops and notebooks, scored 243. Apple attained 201. Third-placed HP/Compaq scored a mere 12. Dell's rating was 4, Gateway -12 and all the rest together scored -16.
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Member since:2005-09-03
A PC is more than just a total of those parts, it's also the choice of wiring, switches, case, screws and so on. Not to mention the standards/circumstances under which they are assembled. I have 2 IBM PC's: one 7 year old Aptiva (intensively used) which has only needed a new CPU fan...the battery still doesn't need to be replaced. The other (a year younger Netvista) never gave me any problem. And I guess no flat screens for me the coming 7 years or so, as my monitors are two chunky 4 year old G78's that I estimate will still run after being thrown of the staircase.
Member since:2005-07-06
"if we are honest most PCs nowaddays use the same commodity parts.. how is there such a HUGE discrepancy?"
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this comment was none of those, im just wondering why its been marked down. This seems to be happening more and more on this site and its a shame to see
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Member since:2006-01-24
Yes, E-Machines are junk; right?
No...and, sort of.
The shop I work at see's more Emachines in for repair than ANY other brand by at least triple.
Do they use no name memory? Nope.
El-cheap-o Hard Drives? Nope.
Unheard of Video cards? Sorry, no.
PC Chips Mainboards? Not that I've seen (yet).
So why? ITS THE GODD-MN POWER SUPPLY.
I can't tell you how many companies make power supplies but almost every emachine that I work on the five volt ground on the PS goes out (if not the whole thing) and causes all sorts of weird problems that have most tech's needlessly replacing memory sticks and HDD ribbons.
Gateways the closets second.
Just because they "all use the same parts" doesn't mean they "all use the same parts" nudge, nudge, wink, wink, - their may be some crap you just didn't see . . .
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2005-07-06
if we are honest most PCs nowaddays use the same commodity parts.. how is there such a HUGE discrepancy?