<p>@derpinitman I should also mention I don’t have my own desktop, so this laptop would be my primary device for everything. That leaves ultrabooks out of the question for me unfortunately</p>
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<p>Quite the opposite actually. In Macbook Air, a netbook, uses a core i5. No other netbook uses a core i5; rather, they use a Intel Atom–or anything smaller and weaker.</p>
<p>Macbook comes with Dedicated high-performance graphics card and only gives the availability of core i5 to i7 only. These are no cheap stuff.</p>
<p>Back in 08 I bought a hp dv6920us. It’s been thrown, dropped, kicked and left on for days to weeks at a time, I download music, movies and books, browse the web like crazy and use Microsoft office, it been to 5 countries and 9 states and in a major car accident, it’s actually the very computer I write this on. And it’s still kicking like a champ. It’s not tricky, it works perfect every time I need it. Oh but in full disclosure in the car accident it lost it’s F4 key, the button still works if you need it to, just no actual key there.</p>
<p>i have a toshiba been using it for 3 years so far.</p>
<p>@UCBhopeful16 I’ve only taken my HP dv6000 out with me maybe a total of about only 20 times? maybe 30? meaning it’s just about always sitting in the same exact spot on my desk…yet it’s almost always overheating nearly to the point of burning skin, the enter key along with 3 out of 4 of the arrow buttons fail to work at all anymore, the charger cord went bad a few months ago, the CD drive stopped reading most discs while it can’t burn discs altogether for as long as I could remember, the fingerprint reader (which I used alot!) seems to work only when it wants to, the list keeps growing. My HP laptop is like a curse compared to yours which seems to be enchanted or something. LOL.</p>
<p>^^You need to clean your laptop. Sounds like dust inside is impeding the air flow, reducing the cold air for cooling it effectively.</p>