Joe,
you used to be a balanced man. What do you think of the MTBF of respective laptops? There are millions sold. If LF and SJ were problems, I'm sure you'd find that in some of the many magazines that test and have all sorts of opinions about computers. In fact, I have not seen any such flags. As far as I have heard about CDs, most frequent causes for not running are software issues.
MTBF for desktops is described by Seagate: http://www.digit-life.com/articles/storagereliability/
and Toshiba presents MTBF for their laptop CD drives as 60,000 POH. That ain't bad, is it? And it's LEADFREE!
http://www.baber.com/drives/laptop_cdrom/dvd/toshiba_sdr2212_specs.htm
Inge
-----Original Message-----
From: TechNet [mailto:[log in to unmask]] On Behalf Of Joe Fjelstad
Sent: den 29 maj 2007 01:39
To: [log in to unmask]
Subject: Re: [TN] RoHS compliant laptop with early failure
Thanks for sharing your thoughts Dave
As I noted in my opening words, I will most likely never know what the cause was. My data poimnt count is only one but is was not a good experience and I would not characterize my comments as "hysterical". We can go there should the data points mount but I don't think it will be necessary until then... ;-)
I did get a full refund and an appology, so there is something to take pleasure in.
Kind regards,
Joe
-----Original Message-----
From: David Hudson <[log in to unmask]>
To: [log in to unmask]
Sent: Tue, 29 May 2007 1:02 am
Subject: Re: [TN] RoHS compliant laptop with early failure
I would suggest that it belies your undoubted professional expertise to make the assumption that this failure has anything to do with RoHS-compliance or lead-free. Frankly, it smacks of hysteria. Surely you can think of at least a dozen other potential failure modes, all equally likely? Let's see some evidence in this case before you throw your toys out of the playpen.
Dave
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David Hudson
On 26/05/07, Joe Fjelstad <[log in to unmask]> wrote:
>
> Greetings folks,
>
> I don't know, (nor will I likely ever know) what the problem is but my
> brand new RoHS compliant laptop has the distinction of being the
> shortest lived one I ever owned.
>
> It is a trusted brand name supplier from Japan and I have always been
> pleased with their bullet proof reliability. My earlier version is
> still working very well, just a little slow. The new one was a
> high-end small, lightweight model that touted reliability in ads. On
> this one, however, 4 weeks after purchase and with very little use,
> the CD just stopped working for no apparent reason.
>
> I would really be curious to know what went wrong but I am going to be
> returning it to the store and will now be looking for something
> cheaper and hopefully non RoHS compliant. I cannot afford to pay big
> bucks for unreliable products.
>
> (I almost wonder if someone out there is getting back at me for
> protesting lead-free too much.. ;-)
>
> Wishing better luck to the rest of you. Joe
>
>
>
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