What do you mean dependable? Do you mean the Never fail?
of course not. If you had glanced at a dictionary you'd know that:
Dependable: reliable; worthy of reliance or trust; "a reliable source of information"; "a dependable worker"
dependability - The trustworthiness of a computing system which allows reliance to be justifiably placed on the service it delivers. It is also used as the collective term gathering the following attributes or non-functional requirements: availability, reliability, maintainability, safety, and security.
Geek, you listed HP in the list of brands. apparently you missed that their previous laptop that failed in 2 years was also an HP. evidently their warranties aren't as great as you or they claim or they wouldn't be looking for a new laptop, and evidently not all of their laptops "never fail" or else it wouldn't have failed either. so by your protracted definition HP isn't dependable.
What if it fails and you are on a trip away from home?
you say "fails" but you say nothing of the nature of the failure. Remember that no warranty will be honoured if the reason for the "failure" is evidently user indifference.
additionally, just because <you> had a bad experience with a certain brand doesn't necessarily mean everybody should avoid them.
The OP had specific needs, He was not asking about a general overall great value.
Actually, they did. 1200$ budget, quick and reliable. Now exactly are you defining "reliable" in this context geek? How is toshiba, or HP (which I've already covered) or Lenovo any more dependable then ASUS, aside from the fact that you had a bad experience a single time. you're one person. compared to the millions of other people that are quite satisifed with both ASUS's products and their support. Additionally, you just say "it keeps on ruining" you never say "how". It doesn't matter how "dependable" a specific motherboard might be if the user keeps subjecting it to a power supply that doesn't provide the right voltages. And this is hardly ASUS's fault. Also, It's important to note that ASUS does <not> make the laptops they sell. You could buy an "ASUS" laptop, and have the exact same laptop as somebody else who purchases a toshiba, aside from of course the large amount of brand labelling for each.
Toshiba had been the largest laptop manufacturer practically every year since the mid 1980sthat is until Quanta and Compal both outsold Toshiba in 2001. More recently, Toshiba sales have been gaining, and it took second place back from Compal and is gaining on Quanta. Quanta's ace in the hole is that it has become the primary contract manufacturer for Dell, which is Quanta's largest customer. Quanta also makes systems for HP, Compaq, eMachines, Best Buy, and Apple, among others. Dell also purchases laptops from Compal and Wistron (Acer), so it isn't tied to one supplier. Now you can see why Dell's different model lines look so differentthey were actually designed and manufactured by different companies. Contract manufacturing by companies such as Quanta and Compal is also the main reason why you see so many different brands of laptop systems that seem to look identical to one another. One potential drawback of the OEM/ODM game is that it is more difficult for companies to support the systems they sell, because in reality they didn't make them and may not have direct access to the parts and manufacturing.
Therefore, in such cases no company is really properly equipped to support systems from the third party, and if you are going to complain about hardware reliability it might be best to blame and/or reward the appropriate company, not the one trying to take credit.