go with an ibm the best whay to find out what has the fuist problems is to go to the support section of dell ,gateway,hp,ect. i know that hp laptops can be crap i have a friends N5170 Pavilion Notebook and it has a serious problem the vidio cuts out completly and intermently and it could be either a $345.00 MOTHERbored or a
$158.00 S3 video PCA - 4MB SGRAM
check out consumer reports