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Apple Ranks a Lackluster Fourth in Notebook Reliability Study

Written on November 17, 2009 by Darrell Etherington and 19 people have commented

Apple is fairly reliable, but not the most reliable company of all when it comes to notebooks, according to a new study by research firm SquareTrade. The top honor goes to Asus, which surprised me, but I suppose shouldn’t have when I consider the build quality of my fairly inexpensive Eee PC. Toshiba and Sony [...]

85% of Mac Owners Also Have a PC: Report

Written on October 07, 2009 by Darrell Etherington and 22 people have commented

Mac users may be getting soft on Windows machines as time moves on, according to a recent report by consumer research firm NPD Group. It found that of those polled, a whopping 85 percent admitted to owning both Mac and Windows PC computers.
That’s a far cry from the polarized days of yore, when even joking [...]

Study: iPhone More Reliable Than BlackBerry, Palm

Written on November 11, 2008 by Darrell Etherington and 2 people have commented

A new study published Nov. 8 by independent warranty provider SquareTrade has shown that over the course of the first year of ownership, the iPhone is more reliable than both BlackBerry and Palm handsets.
The study dealt with failure rates for a sample pool of over 15,000 new phones covered by SquareTrade warranties, which are after-market [...]