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Originally Posted by dsshap
I like the look of an HP laptop. Unfortunately I looked it up and they do have the highest failure rate. Gateway and acer have pretty much the same failure rate as the HP. surprisingly Toshiba has one of the best ratings. I've never owned an HP but we use them at work and they go down all the time. (Hardware related) this website gives info on a legitimate study on laptops (Even though the site isn't too credible the study is all over the web).
http://ahtim.com/which-laptop-brand-the-best/
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The reasons for the fail-rates is actually Nvidia's fault...their motherboards has serious issues and overheats and etc..but HP makes it worse though...(a long side other manufacturers)...what they do is this, they purposely tweak the fans to beyond their limit so that the pc works until your warranty expires and then dies.
I bought a HP laptop for a friend and 1 month later for myself. Afte 1 year and 3 month my friends pc stops turning on. I'm like ok that sucks..oh well...exactly 1 month later my laptop stops turning on...FML
Nvidia also pays $$$ if the manufacturers give the the faulty motherboards back to them (this is so they continue using their stuff)
So I'm not to happy with Nvidia and HP...mostly HP at the moment..So I probably won't be buying Nvidia for 5 years and HP for 10 years min.
I got an ASUS G73jh with ati 5870 recently and I could not be happier...my friend had an old Asus with an ATI and it works cool and years after..
But as far as the deal goes, HP couldn't wait cause they need a product out ASAP..I am actually surprised why Dell and HP are taking their sweet time in these markets...they should have been on top of it ages ago...but I guess in large corporations it takes years to make a market strategy as you call it..sigh.. But now they realized they are behind and ate palm quickly to get products out the door ASAP mostly considering Dell is in on the game as well.