Well, I've had two years with mine, and the only real inherent problem I've had with it is that my battery [tornado fang]'d itself sideways. Aside from that, it's been able to run anything I've thrown at it, it's taken quite a count of physical attacks (including a raging 2-yr old), and besides the battery, its only real inconvenience (notice I said inconvenience, not problem) is the fact that it spent so much time packed in my backpack at first, it's accumulated metric shitloads of dust of epic proportions inside, making the air exhaust a bit clogged and thus making the machine overheat sometimes, which is usually signaled by a very particular flickering on the screen (since the exhaust vent is used for BOTH the processor AND the graphics card).