I've had two HP pavilion laptops. 1300 dollars a piece and they both crapped out in 6 months. Hp just lost a nation wide lawsuit for using crappy componets. I now have a dell laptop inspiron. That I got at best buy for 550 bucks. Going on two years or better now and love it. Never a problem with it. And it's survived being in my saddle bag from seattle all the way to north carolina now. I"m sold on Dells now for sure.