[mrtron]

The first computer I ever owned had the motherboard die after a few days, maybe I have bad luck.

Almost every hard drive I have had has failed.

I just had a new 500 gig I used for backups fail after less than a year. It replaced a 160 gig that died after 2 years.

Every laptop I have owned has had the hard drive die (3, one mac).

I have had cd and dvd drives fail in various machines.

Personally the least hassles resulting from failure has been with Macs because I buy the applecare warrantee, and I just bring the machine in to get it fixed in a few hours. I imagine Dells service would be comparable, I would probably do that if I had a PC as my primary machine.