Poop: the difference in income in the top 40 countries in terms of gdp per capita (ppp) aren't huge. The difference in CEO salaries between America and the rest of the world is huge. Europe doesn't pay their CEOs as much either and they have a number of countries that have higher GDP per capita. Singapore has a higher GDP per capita as well, and it's more economically free than the US, yet its CEOs don't get paid exorbitant amounts.

"I think HPs are seem to wind up in the hands of people who don't understand what they are doing, more often than any competitor aside from Apple. My grandma has two. My sister has one. They often are used on the bed with vents blocks or in a backpack, jostling with books. Not that I really think this chart is worth basing a decision on. HP customers are more likely to buy a warranty, that's all."

As I mentioned in another comment, PCMag survey results also places HP dead last in terms of reliability. PCMag readers are not novices. Also, more HP customers buying warranty means nothing. These results are from their customer base, so proportion differences in warranty purchases is irrelevant.

You know what a survey is right? Did you want them to do a census on ALL laptops sold? Either way, the annual PCMag survey results also show that HP reliability is the worst too. 2 different sets of data, same result.

Because these are failure RATES, not absolute numbers. In other words, it accounts for proportion.

These results are interesting because they are somewhat similar to the annual PCMag reliability survey results. Similarities? HP sucks. Period. And Lenovo isn't as good as their reputation would make us think. Toshiba has decent reliability. And Asus, Sony and Apple are at the top. The differences? In PCMag's data, Acer and Gateway's more recent laptops have pretty good reliability (especially for their price). Dell seems to be worse than average too, and only HP is worse than them.

I find the "novice user" excuse to be pretty crappy though because I have now seen 2 different sets of data showing that HP is at the bottom of the pile BY FAR for reliability- one from this survey and one from PCMag users- people who are anything but novices. Quite frankly, I would never buy a HP these days.

I love how Engadget picked the absolute worst picture of it to give the Sony haters here some wanking material.

It's because these "racist" commenters are just very insecure people.

Because it sounded like you were making excuses for the Dutch team, talking about "very tough luck". Yeah, like this crap doesn't happen to everyone else during competitions. You either deal with it well or you don't.

It's a shame some of the animations are still kind of jittery/laggy even with the good CPU power backing this device.

Not to mention their laptops consistently being noted for having heat issues. My friends' motherboards keep getting fried because of that. This is a ULV-equipped processor too! I thought they were let off less heat.