I'm not sure how you drew that conclusion from my post. Most electronic parts, regardless of quality, can be handily destroyed with a can of Pepsi (the reason for the failure of the keyboard and video card in my current laptop). And as I stated, the hard drives in both laptops were Hitachis, which are pretty highly regarded for notebook/laptop drives. The first drive in my earlier laptop was beaten to death by a train; the second one was a side effect of a cooling issue with the 5150. And the cooling issue's been rectified as well.

The only "crappy" part I could point to would be the bezel around the keyboard that developed hairline cracks a few months after I bought the laptop. The replacement (that I've had far longer than the original) is showing no such issues. My assumption is that Dell discovered a design flaw with the bezel and actually decided to fix it.

Please, order an Apple next time. You won't have any trouble with that