Hardware

TechRepublic recently asked its massive audience of IT professionals which vendors make the most reliable laptops and which ones make the least reliable laptops.

Not surprisingly, the results of our two polls in May had Hewlett-Packard and Dell at or near the top of both lists. Since those two vendors both sell so many machines, both offer drastically different levels of support, and both have very diverse products lines, we regularly hear from lots of happy customers and lost of disgruntled ones as well.

How to add RAM

video on taking apart netbook

Type of RAM to buy

1GB DDR2 4200 533Mhz RAM

To show details on the CPU:

# more /proc/cpuinfo

Who makes the best hard drives?  I found the following article:

I’m just hoping to avoid the worst

The method is simplicity itself. Total up the number of hits that “[vendor name] sucks” gets on Google. For companies who aren’t exclusively disk vendors search on “[vendor name] drives suck.”

Please note this is only a proxy for real numbers. One brand may attract the clueless and another the easily enraged. Some vendors sell more to OEMs who don’t complain online. One thing I did figure out is that we can look at all-time numbers and numbers for the just the last year.

Servers and Desktops.