toolmanmike said

We bought our son a Alienware Laptop and the keyboard and screen hinge shot craps in a little over a year. It cost almost a thousand dollars. Not worth the money in our book. Stay away from a Windows 8 machine unless you get a touch screen. The operating system was written for it. I searched and found a nice Toshiba with windows 7 for a little over $300. It works fine. I have one like it on my tool truck that has been holding up very well. tmm

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67Dart273 said

I'll never buy another Asus as long as I live

1---This thing took about 6 months to show considerable wear "off" the keyboard characters. At about a year old, more than a dozen keys are worn completely blank

2---I ordered the correct "restore" set because I knew I was going to play with Linux. The restore disks are cheap, with glued on cardboard labels, and "act as if" they have never heard of this machine. A restore process results in no correct drivers being installed, and a reboot loop that continues on ???? forever.

3--I tried to order an extra hard drive bracket/ holder/ cassette/ caddy and the so called parts / support people acted as if I was speaking Hebrew


Frankly, I've had fair support with Dell. Just be sure that you do whatever is necessary to order the reinstall/ recovery disks from them within the warrantee period or you won't be able to at all.

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