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When I was an expat in China, we bought a Benq laptop. After two years, the OS froze, the touchpad stopped working and one of the USB ports stopped working. I put the hard rive in a USB case to protect the data, but the rest of the machine is useless.

If I had it to do over, I would get a US machine, unless you're going to live there. You can get a Dell laptop for less than $1000, and have full warrantee. YMMV.