QUOTE(tcchuin @ Jun 5 2012, 12:10 PM)
how is it unfair?=.=
lets say if both brand sold 5000 units in same period,
you heard brand A with 5 complaints, brand B with only 1
I know it's stupid to assume they both sold equal units btw.
Because the data from your sampling is limited, biased and not random

Hearing from a person = not accurate

[You ask 5 Mac users and 4 unfortunate ones said their laptops spoilt within a year, does that mean we should avoid Macs? Maybe there are thousands of other users who never had any problems with their Macs, just that you "unluckily" asked the ones who had problems?]
There's no point in arguing this because we both will not be able to come up with reliable references on brand quality...
The closest and best one would be the survey from SquareTrade from a couple of years ago..
The later reliability surveys are just based on user comments/opinions- mostly owners that have only tried out one or two laptops from a brand

[You'd be surprised that many Acer bashers have never ever used an Acer at all before

]
In short, my point is we cannot judge brands since every brand have their good and bad apples [same applies when we're talking about warranty support]

For me, I've switched from Toshiba to Dell, not because Toshiba sucks, but rather Dell offers much faster warranty claims (I don't really like Dell's lineups of laptops though)