From what I understand, they found 2 year numbers and extrapolated for the third year. Also, there is a bit of selection bias; how many people who get extended warranties for their macs get something other than Applecare? On Nov 23, 2009, at 4:33 AM, Paul Moortgat wrote: > Square Trade did a 30000 laptops survey and found these defects within 3 year. Can you go with these numbers? > > 1. Asus (15,6% defects) > 2. Toshiba (15,7%) > 3. Sony (16,8%) > 4. Apple (17,4%) > 5. Dell (18,3%) > 6. Lenovo (21,5%) > 7. Acer (23,3%) > 8. Gateway (23,5%) > 9. Hewlett Packard (25,6%) > > Paul Moortgat > _______________________________________________ > X4U mailing list > X4U at listserver.themacintoshguy.com > http://listserver.themacintoshguy.com/mailman/listinfo/x4u > > Seven Cent Deals - Great legacy stuff Great Legacy Price > http://www.drbott.com/prod/db.lasso?cat=Seven+Cent+Deal Aron S. Spencer Union, NJ 07083 -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: <http://listserver.themacintoshguy.com/pipermail/x4u/attachments/20091123/88bb1154/attachment.htm>