Pick up an iPad in France, Great Britain, California, Canada, etc. and you’ll get the standard 1 year of AppleCare warranty protection with an optional second year for $99. Take a weekend trip to China, however, and you’ll be rewarded with an extra year — mandatory. You see, in China the iPad is classified as a netbook/laptop. And according to Chinese consumer laws, all “computers” must come with a minimum 2-year warranty. As 9to5Mac points...

If you wanted a slap in the face to rocket you back into the sad sick little world that *used* to be the Xbox 360, a non-scientific poll (paper only) conducted by Game Informer revealed that the failure rate on Xbox 360′s (presumably pre-die shrink to the smaller more efficient processors) was 54%! I don’t care who you are or what company you run, a 54% failure rate is beyond god awful. Of course, such claims can’t be verified by Redmond themselves as...