here is some more statistics for you PP
http://www.tomshardware.com/news/app...lity,7364.html
Check out the table on Reliability. Asus & Lenovo on top (matches up well with the other survey i posted). Seems that HP is worse thatn Acer for reliability.
Why dont you give Asus a try out? Never had one myself, but these report seem favourable.