man, the opposite happened to my fren tho. i bought my v3614au n he purchased the intel part (dunno wat model) but got the same looks 4 months ago. as my laptop only suffered from lack of drivers for xp (at that time, now vista d) his laptop got few probs like bluetooth dead in the 1st month of usage, sent to reapir done. then 2nd month heavy usage on solidworks 3d design the fan fails to run making the laptop can't run even b4 reaching windows welcome screen (overheating), sent again for repair...

now he's keeping his fingers crossed n pray nothing will happen again... but mine doesn't have any sorts of that problem, lucky i guess?

well, it rly depends on u. no 1 can guarantee u anything, not even an intel chip is good enuff anyways. u still can rma it if anything goes awry.

n y amd? fanboi eh?