


224,144 crashes
250,791 hangs
84,251 BSoDs
1,346,000 boot cycles
62,476 hours spent on boot


Sources: Soluto, ZDNet

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RE: uh, what?
By Solandri on 4/25/2013 4:18:49 AM , Rating: 3
I've used Soluto before to try to diagnose a long boot time problem. It's nifty software, but after I fixed the problem I eventually uninstalled it because I noticed it was sucking up a lot of CPU cycles (I run a CPU meter too, although that sucks up CPU cycles as well). The UI is very Mac-like, although I believe it originated on Windows.

That's probably why you're not seeing Thinkpads high on the list. Most Thinkpads are business machines, and get sent to IT if there's a crash problem. Most businesses won't install Soluto on them, and of the ones that do almost none would keep it on and running (especially since it phones home with these statistics). So the few Thinkpads which do get Soluto installed on them would be home users trying to figure out a crash/hang problem with their machine.

Ultimately, that's the biggest problem with the statistics. The sample is biased heavily towards people having problems with their machines, and people who willingly keep the software on after they fix the problem. You can see this in the statistics themselves: 220k hangs and 250k crashes in 1.35 million reboots is an extraordinarily high problem rate.

