Having supplied to Fujitsu.... They have some REALLY good notebooks and some horrible ones.

See the earlier thread on the Best Buy cust svc issue.

I outlined there that the mfr, means NOTHING... It's the price point on the notebook, who builds it and how much leeway the company building it had to supply higher quality components

FACT: Not all IBM notebooks are made by IBM either... So just blindly looking at brand name doesn't work.

Typically home/personal user notebooks will be the most cost sensitive and thus reflect it on quality.

Corporate notebooks will be the opposite.

Good hunting...