Technology Article: 1 in 3 laptops die in first three years
1 in 3 laptops die in first three years Christopher Null: The Working Guy So your new laptop computer died in inside of a year. "I'll never buy a computer from [insert manufacturer name here] again!" I've heard the protests time and time again. Yeah, maybe you got a lemon, but no matter which brand you bought, you truly are not alone in this situation: An analysis of 30,000 new laptops from SquareTrade, which provides aftermarket warranty coverage for electronics products, has found that in the first three years of ownership, nearly a third of laptops (31 percent) will fail. That's actually better than I would have expected based on my experience and observations on how people treat their equipment. SquareTrade has more detailed information (the full PDF of the company's study is available here) on the research on its website. But here are some highlights about how, why, and which laptops fail: > 20.4 percent of failures are due to hardware malfuncti