Quote Originally Posted by Praying Colonel
My mother-in-law's emachine just had catastrophic hard-drive failure after 2 years. Your mileage may vary.

She just bought a Dell Dimension 3000.
My Dell laptop just went back to Dell for major problems, and it's only 4 months old. It seems Dell has been going downhill too. It wasn't a cheapie either, darn thing was over $2k

My next laptop is going to be a Powerbook G4.