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Closed Office
I followed the link by BluesDawg above, and got to this page after a couple more clicks.
http://www.pcmag.com/article2/0,2817,2384243,00.asp
It was a bit surprising that the Macs had a 15% repair rate in the first year, compared to 5% for Samsung. For all that money I wouldn't expect that.
Here is what Consumer Reports found. Here's what they had to say this year:
No one brand stood out as the most or least reliable. That's what we found when we asked more than 26,000 readers who bought a laptop computer between 2008 and 2011 about their experiences. The graph shows the percentage of brands that have ever been repaired or had a serious problem. Differences of less than 3 percentage points are not meaningful, and we've adjusted the data to eliminate differences linked solely to the age of the laptop computer.
The graph they talk about showed 10 or so different brands of computers, all of which scored in the 9% (Apple) to 12% (Sony, Compaq and Dell) range.