On another forum I belong to, we have "death on the driveway" - posts of appliances and such that have pissed us off, and suffered a horrible death on the driveway.
This laptop is about to suffer the same fate.
I installed Windows 7 Ultimate after
Vista had been having problems.
So far, a clean install of Windows 7 is having the same issue. Not to mention extremely sporadic connection issues. Sometimes it'll load a page, sometimes there's no connection. Like a little child inside playing with the wireless switch.
I installed a few hardware drivers...touchpad, audio, wireless... and then it refused to boot. It froze at exactly the moment the swirly Microsoft logo lights start to appear.. one little speck of orange above "Starting Windows" (I think that's what it said)
I'll give this laptop 24 hours. Then it suffers Death on the Driveway.