its how you use it not laptops in general. Mine is rock solid I have brought it down omb of hdd space left and running a file server in the background on it and it has never failed me. My friends have exactly the same laptops bought from school all the same models with the same starting software and there is one person who seems hopeless with it he is down with technicians atleast once a week as I can't be bothered to fix it for him any more and because its a school laptop we get free 24-7 technical support so I would rather waste the time of the guys who have the job of fixing it rather then mine own.
The technicians here are so slow though!!!!! I swear they have no passion for their job and take a whole day to do a job which takes me an hour.