It was less than a year ago that I bought my laptop, but tomorrow I have to send it back to the factory for repairs... such a shame!
You can see in the picture on the right what's happening. It runs fine for much of the time, but every now and then, the screen will flash to this white for a few seconds and then flash back again. As far as I can see, it's not related to load or heat or anything like that (I've seen it happen just after I booted up, with no programs running) so I don't know what's causing it.
I called their technical support line a few days ago, and they were actually pretty good. The only thing I found strange was they made me unplug it, take out the battery and then hold the "power" button for a full minute. When I asked what this was for, the tech. support guy said it was to "release the static electricity that may have built up." Whatever.
But other than that one strange request, they sent me the latest BIOS and video driver, which they asked me to install and see what happens. Today I called back and told them it didn't make a difference, and they booked it in for repair straight away! (Although the guy asked me if I had done that static-releasing thing again, I said, "yeah", but I'm still not sure why they're so obsessed with that?)
So tommorrow someone is going to come and pick it up, which means I'm now busily backing up all my stuff (I already use mozy for backups, but I hear it can be a bit of a pain to restore from them, so I'm just copying important stuff onto my media centre for the time being). Hopefully they won't delete all my stuff (why would they?) and I'll not have to worry.
But worst of all, I'll be without a laptop for the whole weekend! I guess it'll give me a chance to spend some quality time with my Xbox wife :)