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Semi-OT: new hardware reliability survey

Bjoern said:
Site fails to display properly on Opera 10. Shoot.
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Did you remove IE when you installed Opera? Most days, I use only Firefox; but occasionally I need IE. Netflix "Instant Watch" is an example; it works through Firefox, but it's smoother in IE.
 
Firefox does the job.

Anyways the survey, being focused mainly on complete end user products, isn't much of my cup of tea since I thought it was more centered on hardware manufacturers themselves...NVidia, ATI, Intel...you get the idea.

Also, their smartphone reliability article didn't even list mine (i8910), so it's useless to me as well.

The only thing crossing my sphere of interest was Lenovo being in the lower ranks - which I don't agree with. I never had a single problem with my T60 and since they even publically offer a maintenance manual for it on their homepage ranks their support higher than listed there for me.
 
Exploder can't be uninstalled. It was specifically embedded in the Operating System to prevent it being so. If you ever use Windows Update, for example, you are using Internet Explorer code, just with a different front end. A number of other parts of the Operating System and Microsoft add-on packages such as LIVE! (and STEAM, interestingly), don't call your default browser to display in - they call Internet Explorer specifically.

Yes, you can disable the front end, but MS have yet to comply with the EU ruling that IE had to be a separate product that could be uninstalled - it caused something of a stink in the anti Microsoft camp when Windows7 was released with IE still embedded.

Anyway, on topic, we have to use Lenovo ThinkPads for technician's test platforms and out of the twenty or so we've bought, which have been pretty appallingly treated by the testers and maintainers at times, I don't know of a single one that has failed. The IBMs that are used by managers and some other staff in the offices have an abysmal failure rate.

It's always worth remembering with surveys about hardware that they're the same as FS add-ons. The ones who are vocal are usually the ones who are unhappy. Those who are happy are too busy using the product to spend time talking about it.
 
cheezyflier said:
i'm using opera 10.10 and it works for me
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Huh?

No redirection to an almost blank "bookmark this" page?



IanP said:
Anyway, on topic, we have to use Lenovo ThinkPads for technician's test platforms and out of the twenty or so we've bought, which have been pretty appallingly treated by the testers and maintainers at times, I don't know of a single one that has failed. The IBMs that are used by managers and some other staff in the offices have an abysmal failure rate.
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Failure as of hardware failure or software failures? The former would be interesting and mystarious, the latter would be...well...typical for the average PC user.

In terms of hardwarer, Thinkpads are rock-solid. At least mine is...dropped it accidentially once and the only thing that broke was a holding pin for the battery. Other than that no damage at all.

Sadly, I can't upgrade it that well...provided that I don't get my hands on a new mainboard with a stronger CPU and GPU. The Core Duo is slowly getting weak although Seven runs even better than XP ever did. And the ATI X1300 chip...well....no comment.
First up is an SSD though. The standard laptop HDDs are so s-l-o-w.
 
Hardware, Bjoern. The IBMs (not ThinkPads as they sold the trademark to Lenovo) have, on average, lasted eight to ten months before having major hardware problems (mainly power supply related). The Lenovos (which are ThinkPads) that we send out on site and have since Rugby phase 1 in 2002, have been absolutely rock solid so far.

It is very dependent on what you do with them as to how long they last software wise. We're still using a 12 year old HP Omnibook for most of our DOS-requiring work, which runs Windows 2000 and has a very fried battery, but is otherwise fine... Mainly because we stopped Chris installing all his personal junk on it after "The Creative Driver Incident (tm)" :angryfir:
 
bjoern, no, it loads normally for me. perhaps there is some difference in the settings, although i wouldn't know where to look to figure that out.
 
kilo delta said:
The 7200rpm HDD's performance is quite fast.:)
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Judging from 30 Mbytes/Sec transfer speed (HDTach) I'm not having that one. ;)



IanP said:
Hardware, Bjoern. The IBMs (not ThinkPads as they sold the trademark to Lenovo) have, on average, lasted eight to ten months before having major hardware problems (mainly power supply related). The Lenovos (which are ThinkPads) that we send out on site and have since Rugby phase 1 in 2002, have been absolutely rock solid so far.
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So the IBMs are desktops then?

What kind of PSUs are they putting into those then? Fifteen Euro ones?

It is very dependent on what you do with them as to how long they last software wise. We're still using a 12 year old HP Omnibook for most of our DOS-requiring work, which runs Windows 2000 and has a very fried battery, but is otherwise fine... Mainly because we stopped Chris installing all his personal junk on it after "The Creative Driver Incident (tm)" :angryfir:
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Haha!

Another reminder to keep personal life and work life seperated. Except you're using your personal laptop at work...



cheezyflier said:
bjoern, no, it loads normally for me. perhaps there is some difference in the settings, although i wouldn't know where to look to figure that out.
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Weird. :/
 
They're both notebooks, Bjoern. IBM sold the ThinkPad name to Lenovo, so IBM no longer make ThinkPads, Lenovo make ThinkPads and IBM make... Well. Ours are "D90" or something like that.

They're a pile of junk, whatever model number they are.
 
IanP said:
They're both notebooks, Bjoern. IBM sold the ThinkPad name to Lenovo, so IBM no longer make ThinkPads, Lenovo make ThinkPads and IBM make... Well. Ours are "D90" or something like that.

They're a pile of junk, whatever model number they are.
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My T60 still wears the IBM logo (albeit being made by Lenovo)...and it wears it proudly. :d
 
Bjoern said:
Judging from 30 Mbytes/Sec transfer speed (HDTach) I'm not having that one. ;)
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If given the choice of a large capacity, low cost,7200rpm HDD drive or a much smaller capacity,expensive SSD drive....I'd strongly recommend the standard HDD :)
I've both in my notebooks and whilst the SSD allows programs to operate quicker the initial outlay is not worth it imho.
 
kilo delta said:
If given the choice of a large capacity, low cost,7200rpm HDD drive or a much smaller capacity,expensive SSD drive....I'd strongly recommend the standard HDD :)
I've both in my notebooks and whilst the SSD allows programs to operate quicker the initial outlay is not worth it imho.
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If it's a choice between an 80GB 5400RPM HDD and an 80GB SSD, what would you prefer? :kilroy: :icon_lol:
 
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