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News agency Reuters reports that whilst computer have become more reliable in recent years as manufacturers have improved designs, but one in every six new laptops still needs to be repaired within a year after purchase.Failure rates of both desktop and portable notebook computers have improved in the 2005-06 period compared with 2003-04. However, it appears that five per cent of desktop computers need to have a component replaced within the first year, compared with 7 per cent two years ago. Four years after purchase the chance that a desktop computer needs to be repaired is 12 per cent, compared with 15 per cent in 2003-04 and for or laptops the first year failure rate was 15 per cent, compared with 20 per cent two years earlier.



It does appears that for notebooks, screen breakage used to be the single-largest source of failure. However, it seems over the time the notebook manufacturers have improved design significantly to reduce screen breakage by adding structural rigidity to the notebook casing and screen bezel, as well as by providing a greater clearance between the screen and the keyboard when the system is closed.
The main problems with laptops were now motherboards and hard drives, which together made up nearly 50 per cent of all failures.