800,000 Computers Shipped D.O.A. in 1999 Friday, June 8, 2001 By Senior Editor John H. Farr

ConsumerReports.org has just released the results of a survey on computer quality, the Register reports. And according to the data, of a total of almost 16 million PCs sold in 1999, 800,000 "were totally inoperable when the customer set up the machine."

Now that's a high failure rate, but there's more: if the number of personal computers that had to have "at least three components" replaced in the first 16 months are included (240,000 PCs), that comes to well over a million machines that made a very bad impression on those who bought them. The Register has a link to the overall ConsumerReports.org survey.

Macintosh computers are not without their own quality control glitches, but we have been fortunate over the years. Hard drives aside, our Power Macintosh 8600, now upgraded to a 450MHz G3 machine, has been absolutely bulletproof. Our original Rev. A tangerine iBook also continues to function flawlessly.

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-- Anonymous, June 09, 2001

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Anyone like to take a guess as to how many were received as Christmas Presents 1999?

-- Anonymous, June 09, 2001