What laptop brands are best?

[Hovik]

Don't get Dell. I previously owned a Dell laptop (much to my shame) and it was a nightmare to own. My battery had died after one year in, I had to buy 2 chargers for the damn thing because they broke down so easily and it could barely handle running Minecraft (although I'll admit to that being some ignorance as to how judge good computer specs at the time).

Sadly, I'm not as well informed about good laptop brands.

I concur, Dell sucks massive donkey cock. Made from sub-standard parts crudely put together. Pretty much designed to break and degrade quickly.

And then they get the last laugh when you're forced to purchase proprietary replacements which happen to be far overpriced.

As far as my opinion on laptop brands go, I'd say Gateway is great. Asus has some nice netbooks if you want something really small and affordable. Granted, my Eee PC ran Windows 7 horribly, so I ended up installing a Linux distro, but that works amazingly well to its credit.