<story><title>Microsoft analyzes over a million PC failures, results shatter enthusiast myths</title><url>http://www.extremetech.com/gaming/131739-microsoft-analyzes-over-a-million-pc-failures-results-shatter-enthusiast-myths</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>TwoBit</author><text>The only thing surprising to me in the results was that laptop CPUs and memory were more reliable than desktop. Their reasoning is that laptops are built more conservatively. Maybe so, but desktops come from many more sources and may simply have. much more variable build quality. I want to see that data for desktops made only by the companies who make the laptops.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>beagle3</author><text>I don&apos;t think it is surprising at all.&lt;p&gt;A modern laptop (produced in the last 10 years or so) has zero unused space, meaning that even if they are not treated well, components won&apos;t come out of sockets because they literally have no where to go. Most laptops also have tighter thermal regulation than desktops, because they are facing a harder cooling problem and wouldn&apos;t work well if they didn&apos;t.&lt;p&gt;Laptops also lag desktop technology by at least half a generation -- the average laptop CPU at a given time is produced with older-at-the-time (higher yield, better understood, more reliable) silicon processes than desktop chips.&lt;p&gt;Every floor-sitting-desktop I&apos;ve seen gets kicks occasionally, and there&apos;s actually room for memory, fans and cards to move around.&lt;p&gt;I would guess a Lenovo or Dell desktop is still less reliable (as measured by real life crashes such as in this study) than a laptop produced by the same company.</text></comment>
<story><title>Microsoft analyzes over a million PC failures, results shatter enthusiast myths</title><url>http://www.extremetech.com/gaming/131739-microsoft-analyzes-over-a-million-pc-failures-results-shatter-enthusiast-myths</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>TwoBit</author><text>The only thing surprising to me in the results was that laptop CPUs and memory were more reliable than desktop. Their reasoning is that laptops are built more conservatively. Maybe so, but desktops come from many more sources and may simply have. much more variable build quality. I want to see that data for desktops made only by the companies who make the laptops.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>pkteison</author><text>They already excluded overclocked and white box systems from the laptop comparison.
Edit: From laptop comparison section of original paper: &quot;To avoid conﬂation with other factors, we remove overclocked and white box machines from our analysis. Because desktops have 35% more TACT than laptops, we only count failures within the ﬁrst 30 days of TACT, for machines with at least 30 days of TACT.&quot;</text></comment>