What is the typical life span of the laptop?
I've only read reviews of people that have had it for a few months to a few days, Which makes me concerned that if I take this overseas with me as my only form of communication with America, Will it die on me in a year or less than?
We have had ours only for around four month's but have had no problems, I also have two other Asus laptops, one around 3 years old but it is on it's third hard drive, but that could be because my son puts a lot of stuff on and off of it. my other is a UL50 and it is over 5 years old and still works good with no problems just a little slow and the 2-in-1 has less moving parts no dvd drive, just be sure to perform maintenance on it on a regular bases, me personally I would try also to get an Asus, Microsoft or Apple pad for back up just incase, you can find them reasonably priced these day's , just try to find one on sale, because with electronics you never really know and how about a smart phone also. Good luck.
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