Whatever you do, steer clear of Acer. I made the mistake of buying my laptop off of NewEgg, which I'd always trusted when buying desktop parts. I bought the t

Whatever you do, steer clear of Acer. I made the mistake of buying my laptop off of NewEgg, which I'd always trusted when buying desktop parts. I bought the top rated laptop from them that fit my specs. An Acer Aspire Timeline 3810T. Six months later the screen died. I went looking and discovered that not only are the Acer Aspires plagued with this issue, but so are many of their other brands. My mistake for not checking it out more thoroughly and trusting the wisdom of the crowd. Even before the screen went out I was having issues with it. The screen would blank out any time a little pressure was applied to it. And the machine overheated pretty readily. It had a weird keyboard mouse set up that required awkward hand position and the screen wouldn't fold back past an angle that was actually fairly awkward. Plus it lacked a dvd drive which turned out to be more of a pain than I'd thought it would be. Overall, it wound up as not a very good value for the cost. And not reliable at all. We'll see how it holds up once I get the screen replaced - maybe I just got a faulty screen. My brother got a Lenovo and hasn't had any trouble with it. So I'll anecdotally second Thaumaturgy's suggestion of Lenovo.