What laptop brands are best?

[Autumnlicious]

All I can add to this is I've been using & building PCs for the better part of 18 years & have had complete shit luck with multiple Toshiba laptops. I also have an Acer Aspire, it's screen went bad three days out of the extended warranty.

If I had to go buy one right now & I couldn't drop $2k on a Widow PC or Falcon Northwest, I'd go with an ASUS or Lenovo. My girlfriend has an ASUS & it's been a great laptop. Survived two years of college & is now being used by 4 children. My mother has a Lenovo & I was impressed by it's build quality while I when I was setting it up.

I have an Acer Aspire 5745G.

This little bastard has been the best 700$ I ever spent -- Nvidia Optimus GT420M, Intel Integrated for normal, Core i3 at 4gbs memory and a decent screen that has survived me. The only weak point is the keys on the keyboard -- they pop out so easy and are impossible to reinsert.

Asus, Acer, Lenovo, System 76, Apple.

Seriously though, the Apple ones, while stylish, don't come at all with Optimus. If you're a semi-serious gamer on the go who needs battery life, Optimus is a must.