From the Dark Side--One in Seven PCs Fail in First Week
, that's 15 percent that fail nearly right out of the box according to this Inquirer article. In addition, they write:
The really unpalatable thing about personal computers of the IBM-clone variety is that right since we used our first one in the early 1980s, is that they're not easy to use.
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