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Should I Expect my Laptop to Work for a Long Time or do I Need to buy a new one Every few Years?

Guest post by: Graham Kelly

Article Overview: Ask the typical laptop user just how long their laptop ought to last and most will point out that they expect to see well over 5 years use before it fails, nonetheless, this is often not a reality. Even though, the average electrical appliance would commonly keep going up to 10 years without breakdown or major repair.

Should I Expect my Laptop to Work for a Long Time or do I Need to buy a new one Every few Years?

Ask the typical laptop user just how long their laptop ought to last and most will point out that they expect to see well over 5 years use before it fails, nonetheless, this is often not a reality. Even though, the average electrical appliance would commonly keep going up to 10 years without breakdown or major repair.

If the user isn't very careful then a laptop is easily broken by being dropped or liquid spilt on the keyboard etc. They are defects generated by the user and are not considered in this article. Nevertheless, manufacturing and manufacture's problems are beyond the control of the user and will now be considered in more detail.

Nearly, 25% of brand new laptops and notebooks fail within 3 years of purchase. Squaretrade in 2009 indicated that 10% to 15% of new laptops stopped working within 2 years and 15% to 25% stopped working within 3 years. They're a company providing computer extended warranty so have compiled these very interesting statistics. These statistics do not incorporate accident statistics where the operator has broken the laptop. Many laptop owners would be extremely surprised to find their laptop will probably go wrong within 3 years of purchase as a result of no fault of their own.

There are many reasons why a laptop may go wrong even when carefully used as the manufacture instructs:-

1. There could possibly be a manufacturer's design mistake. As an illustration, the manufacturer could possibly have made use of an incorrect electronic component on the laptop motherboard. This might perform adequately for a while then go wrong because of overheating or overloading another component.

2. Electronic components exhibit a reliability somewhat like that of a light bulb. A light bulb may have an average life expectancy of say 10,000 hours before it fails; 99% can last around this time yet 1% will go wrong considerably earlier than this. A laptop will contain multitudes of electronic components which are all expected to operate not less than say 100,000 hours, yet, if one of these components fails early and is a crucial component then the laptop will cease to function. It can be extremely difficult for a manufacturer to fully stop this random failure of a component other than selecting parts which have really low breakdown rates.

3. There could possibly be a mechanical problem with a switch, DVD drive or hard drive. For instance, if very small piece of metal or grit was left within the hard drive in the course of manufacture, then this may at some point scrape the disk or damage the hard drive mechanics. This may occur at any time and unexpectedly rendering the laptop useless.

A laptop is a very complicated piece of electronics, filled with a large number of small components, each is quite reliable but every one has the possibility to fail and completely disable the laptop. So perhaps it's not surprising that one in four laptops stop working in just 3 years.

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