I have had this laptop for around 18 months now and it has had to go for repair once due to a problem when the computer kept crashing about 5 times a day. We did think there was a loose connection with the power lead and taping up the leads at the back did help a bit for a while. When the laptop came back from repair they said they had replaced the power lead connection and fan and given the machine a clean out. Since then I have not had the fault with the laptop crashing anymore.

Generally this laptop is heavier then my last laptop which was an Acer and it is quite big being a 17 inch screen. I would say if you do a lot of travelling then this model could be too heavy to take around. I use a site which requires having a lot of different sites open and it was very slow doing this so we took off Vista and replaced it with XP and also added more memory. Since then it does everything I want to do quickly and is reliable to use. I do use this laptop a lot though and the silver coating on the front has worn off to black where the mouse has been moved a lot.

Generally this laptop has done me well apart from the fault described above which has now been fixed.