Yeah, some of my friends have HP laptops. The one's built in the past 2-3 years have been having all kinds of problems. It sounds like HP is pretty good about honoring the warranties, but no one wants to go through that kind of hassle.

On the other hand, my stepdad's HP laptop from around 2004 has never had any problems at all. That was the previous generation.


This thread reminds me that its been what feels like a long time since I last did a major upgrade. Only two years actually, but a lot changes in that time. I'll probably still be using my AMD Opteron 165 for awhile. It actually made sense for me to buy a server-grade processor because it was the cheapest dual core at the time.