I am no expert when it comes to laptops and notebooks, but I had some major hardware failures with my laptop and PC because of overheating and power surge. Let me tell you that it didn’t feel so good to have waited 2 weeks to get it repaired. Also, the extra few hundreds of dollars I had to paid for the computer repaired shop.

From my own experience, the two reasons that caused my hardware failures were overheating and power/electrical surges. The first hardware failure happened when I was running my HP Pavilion DV6000 laptop/notebook during one summer night. It was hot and humid but I never thought my laptop/notebook would easily get over heated and it did just that after about 2 or 3 hours of use. There was no fire but I smell something was burning and the next time I tried to turn my laptop/notebook, it didn’t start. Read all about it here.

Just came back from dropping off my broken HP laptop at the computer store. (My model was HP Pavilion DV6000 ) Apparently the repair man at the computer store said the HP laptops are one of the most repaired laptop brands in his store (about 20 each month), next to Toshiba and then Acer. I asked him which laptop he thinks gets the least repaired and he said the Acer Laptops are the least repaired.

Below is a chart for the malfunction rate of different brand of lap tops. Not sure how accurate this is, but you can read the rest of the article here and I’m not surprise HP is the worst.

Continuing on with my story…..I brought this HP laptop as refurbished directly from HP on eBay back in 2007. Once I had it mailed to my house and after about 10 minutes of first used, I smell something burning and then the computer shut itself off. Luckily for me there was a 1 year warranty with HP refurbished systems. I called the support and they gave me their location to their repaired shop closest to my house where I can send it back at no charge to have it fix.