MM and M chilax, I bet both of you have no idea how extremely beneficial the great advice you have both dispensed here has been - which has also been free.
Re hardware, every manufacture produces a lemon, sometimes by design, sometimes by batch number, sometimes even by greed by deliberately releasing a low quality product containing a huge profit margin after playing the market with a string of successful products.
To borrow a saying from the car industry: "The best car on the road is one built on a Wednesday."
Cheers.