Asus N55SLDS71 ASUS - A Top 2 Notebook Brand in South East Asia, Top In Reliability, Vendor, Rank

TOP IN RELIABILITY

ASUS - A Top 2 Notebook Brand in South East Asia

Due to consumer trust in ASUS quality and innovative designs, the company has become one of the regional top two notebook brands based on 2011 whole-year performance.

ASUS celebrates another year of business excellence in 2011. Acheiving a 145% growth rate last year, ASUS is the only PC brand to display strong expansion for 12 consecutive quarters, despite prominent seasonal factors and a tough global macro-economic landscape with deep impact on Southeast Asia markets and consumption.

VENDOR	RANK
ACER	1
ASUS	2
HP	3
Toshiba	4
Dell	5
Lenovo	6

Commenting on this, Rex Lee, Regional Director of Southeast Asia for ASUS said:

ASUS recommends Windows® 7.

Survey of 30,000 Laptops Lists ASUS as Top in Reliability Rankings

SquareTrade, the largest independent warranty service provider in the United States, published a report that analyzed the failure rates of over 30,000 new laptop computers manufactured by the leading nine notebook brands over the past 3 years. A minimum of 1,000 notebooks from each brand were sampled.

“New

ideas and

technologies pave the way for success”

“ASUS greatly appreciates the recognition we and our products receive from consumers, and would like to thank all channel partners for their great support. We will continue to provide the best quality products through consistent innovation and persistent perfection.”

With three year malfunction rates under 16%, laptops from ASUS are nearly 40% more reliable than HP, the worst performer in this study. HP, the industry leader, which shipped nearly 16 million laptops in the past year according to IDC, ranked dead last in this reliability study with over one-fourth of laptops expected to malfunction in three years. Gateway and Acer, the no. 2 maker of laptops, were also nearly unreliable as HP, with an expected malfunction rate of over 23% (page 6).

Source: www.squaretrade.com/pages/laptop-reliability-1109/

Square Trade, 2009/Nov/16th, Report”1 in 3 laptops fail over 3 years”

SquareTrade Report Disclaimer

•As there is no sharp line that divides the definition of a netbook and laptop computer, SquareTrade has used the price point of under $400 to define the netbook category in this analysis

•Only malfunctions reported directly to SquareTrade are included in the data. Other malfunctions, including software issues handled directly by the retailer, problems associated with product recalls, and those fixed by software/firmware updates, may not be represented in this data

•We did not take into consideration purchase locations

•The document and all of its contents are provides as-is. SquareTrade has made efforts to ensure that the data and conclusions we present are correct, but makes no warranty, express or implied about the data accuracy of the data

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