I would rather get a unit that can give me a longer warranty for better peace of mind... Asus gives 2 years warranty... branded units from Acer sometimes have 3 years warranty built-in for the hi-end unit... HP, IBM & Apple can provide 3 years as long as you buy the upgrade warranty...

Intel has the VBI notebooks (Verified by Intel). For the Philippine market, interchangeable ang LCD, battery, keyboard, Optical Drive. Chassis & Motherboard you have to buy as 1... Memory, CPU & Hard drive you can put in anything you want in any combination...

Neo sources their notebooks from Tier 2 Taiwan manufacturers... The branded notebooks like HP, IBM they get from Tier 1 manufacturers and rarely from the Tier 2... so this means get Tier 1 notebooks from Asus, Compal & Quanta... other than those Taiwan brand names give them some doubt on their build quality & support...

My suggestion just make a scorecard of what you want putting side by side the specs, warranty & support... Dun mo malalaman ano ang sulit... I did my comparison when we bought our laptop... My choices are the Acer, Asus & VBI... I chose the VBI coz the specs of my notebook are similar to Macbook Pros worth at least 2,000 USD but I got mine for only 60k...