Your comments about asus are strictly personal opinion. I've owned an Asus laptop for more than a year and it has been rock solid. I've knocked it onto the floor a couple of times, it has been banged around and it's still going strong. Also cheaper than a thinkpad.
> > Buy a refurbished ThinkPad, still better older ThinkPad than > shitty plastic Acer/Asus crapbook. > > jirib