[ltp] Reliability

[John Jason Jordan]

On Fri, 11 Dec 2009 23:08:32 -0600
"Jeffrey L. Taylor" <jeff@abluz.dyndns.org> dijo:

>I am looking at replacing my T41, it is starting to show wear and occassional
>disk errors on backup.  The June 2009 Consumer Reports placed Lenovo near the
>top for reliability.  The December 2009 issue puts them at the bottom.  Has
>Lenovo's reliability slipped that badly?
>
>It occurs to me that IBM essentially had no consumer grade laptops.  Are the
>business grade laptops as reliable as even, but the newly introduced consumer
>grade laptops dragging the average down?

I'm not a member of Consumer Reports, so I can't look at the actual reviews.
But I would go back and look at exactly which models each review covered. I bet
they were different models. And yes, there have been newer consumer grade
models that are not as well made as the business models.

I should add that one of the reasons I am not a member of consumer reports is
that I think their views are very biased. I place a lot more faith in customer
reviews on places like Amazon than an editorial opinion article whose purpose is
to gain readership and revenue.