Asus Tops Laptop Reliability Study
November 19, 2009 by Rico Mossesgeld
Filed under Laptops, Trends, netbooks
According to research by warranty firm SquareTrade, you really get what you pay for, with premium-priced laptops lasting longer than their cheaper counterparts on average. Good news for those who’ve spent money for specs, bad for buyers trying to eke by on affordable netbooks; from the survey of 30,000 portables, netbooks have a 5.8% chance of failing within the first year.
Another notable trend becomes clear when comparing brands. Here’s the list of nine different brands, ranked from most reliable to least, in terms of malfunction rate:
Asus
Toshiba
Sony
Apple
Dell
Lenovo
Acer
Gateway
HP
Looks like Asus‘ marketing department have a new talking point to advertise, while Apple has …read more
Quad-Core Toshiba X305-Q725 Notebook Reviewed
March 15, 2009 by Rico Mossesgeld
Filed under Gaming, Laptops
So how does a hefty 17″ laptop from Toshiba—with a 2Ghz Core 2 Quad from Intel and a 1GB NVIDIA GeForce 9800M—hold up? Obviously, the puny 6-cell battery can’t power things for long, and carrying a desktop replacement that’s 2.5″ inches thick at its beefiest point must give owners hernia.
But Toshiba markets the X305-Q725 as a gaming notebook, so obviously performance is most important. Compared to its peers, this offering falls somewhere in the middkle. See Anandtech’s review for the full details.
Personally, I still think desktops are best for gaming procrastination; laptops should remain the domain of workaholics.
(image from Anandtech)
