About 14 months ago I purchased a Dell Studio and it had every problem that you could imagion!   Dell sent me three replacement hard drives and would mess with the laptop remotely until the warranty ran out, then it was "See ya later/good luck!"  Then I purchased a fourth hard drive from another vendor and that solved most of my problems.  The only problem now is that it does a crash dump every time I use it.  I start to use it and it will have a crash dump within the first 2-3 minutes with a different error every time.  Then it restarts and is fine.  Any ideas out there?  It is a Studio 1558 with an I5 processor and 8 megs of memory.  I don't know if I should replace more parts or just get an HP. Any ideas appreciated because Dell Support was useless.