ASUS laptop is horrible.

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Is there a recall or anything that will help me recover any money from this.

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Probably not. Im sure every ounce of your warranty is expired after 2 years.

I had a Dell Laptop 3 years ago that I paid $5000 for. It was basically a portable desktop stuffed into a laptop frame with basically everything possible you could fit in there. (Also, I got to deduct about 80% of its cost as a work expense so it didn't hit me in the wallet THAT bad when it was all said and done). 14 months after buying it, 2 months after the hardware warranty expired, the hard drive basically melted.

It had a quad core, 16 gigs of ram and dual nvidia cards in it and generated enough heat to melt plastic wrap if you left it near the lapop. I kept it on one of the best cooling pads I could find. It generated so much heat it actually warped aluminum brackets inside the case of the machine which caused the hard drive housing to slip just a bit. One day when I packed up the lapop to bring it to work, I heard from rattling inside when I put it in its bag. Sure enough, the entire housing for the hard drive was now free floating in the computer. Next thing I know, the existing heat from the machine had also damaged the actual hard drive when the free floating HDD was now pressed against some of the overheated guts of the system.

I called dell to express some severe disapointment and demanded to be compensated. Considering I had made over $10,000 in purchases from dell in a reasonable period of time, (business related purchases) I expected them to try to bend over backwards to help me out.They offered me free shipping on any future order I placed with them....which will never happen...ever...

Moral of the story? I doubt Asus will compensate you in any way.
I know, I know CSB....

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ASUS laptop

built so cheaply

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This is probably accurate.

Dell, however, if by built solid you mean weighs more than it should for no explicable reason...then yes...its more "solid."

yeah sounds like OP bought a cheap consumer line asus and is comparing it to a business model dell.

I've had my ASUS for a few days and it doesn't feel cheap at all.

I liked my Asus, and it works even after I broke my screen.

Fwiw, if you get a cheap laptop, the chance it lasts much longer than two years isn't high anyways.

Toshiba only when it comes to laptops for me

I've had Dell and Asus (of course I haven't used my Asus for gaming but I did the Dell) but I haven't had a problem and I am going on a year now. My Dell's lasted 4 years and 3 years respectively before going out on me.

you get what you pay for. i have been through 3 dells in a matter of 7 years. made the switch to mac 5 years ago and still have the same one i got then.