>So there must be something wrong with their engineering lately. Once upon a time they'd always last one month over warranty before they'd break.
That is not something exclusive of HP, it happened with my wife's Dell computer, one month over warranty and the CPU Fan was not making full contact with the CPU any longer thus the computer would overheat upon power-up. And it was a damn expensive computer... (fortunately one of my co-workers worked for Dell and fixed the problem for me, as I could not found what was the issue)
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