I purchased this laptop in May of 2010, and since purchasing the laptop, I have had three major hardware issues. Firstly, the week of purchase, the power brick died. Since it was inside 30 days, the store i bought the laptop from replaced the brick. Next, about two weeks after that, the LCD panel in the laptop died and I was given two choices. I could either pay the shipping to send my laptop to asus for repair, or bring it to a local store with whom Asus has a partnership. I chose the latter, and it took 3 weeks and 2 days to... read full review »