This thread is grossly under-used.
So, my new Compaq HP 2000-bf69WM is [parasitic bomb]. I really, really, really don't want to sound ungrateful because this was a gift. But, in the 10 days I've had it, I have a dark spot on the top of the monitor (I might have caused that -- I thought it was a touchscreen monitor), the wireless went on the fritz due to avast! Anti-Virus (as far as I could tell, since a System Refresh fixed it...) and now, the on-board AMD Radeon HD 6310 video card seems to be breaking or broken, since I'm getting horizontal screen flickers at random times from random content. It's by no means consistent, though I can make it flicker by loading certain pages or programs. (Like the title banner of a certain art site will make the screen flicker regardless of what browser I use.) The video thing can be fixed by switching to 40 Hertz refresh rate, but I really, really don't want to do that...
I'm hoping that maybe the video card is fine, but something is just loose in the computer itself... But I wouldn't be surprised if this laptop is just a piece of [parasitic bomb]... "Once bitten, twice shy," as is my experience with electronics... -_-