What laptop brands are best?

[thesummerqueen]

So, after all the Dell hate:

Here's my history: Compaq, Toshiba, Compaq, HP Probook, and now my father just bought me a Dell.

By far, the Compaqs were the most awesome, but they don't exist anymore. Those things were workhorses. After that, my Probook has done well, but started having battery issues after 1 year and buy now, on to the 2.5 year point, the battery doesn't last for shit. The Toshiba was shite. I finally killed it in a haze of electrical glory by spilling a dirty martini onto it.

I asked around before settling on the Dell, and by far the consensus was Dell or Lenovo. I went with the Dell, because at the price point the Dell had better processing power. I'm not a computer gamer - I just needed something that could handle editing mass quantities of photos. An engineer I know says he's been through every brand imaginable, and by far the Dells lasted the longest, and he had just purchased another one.

Only two people had bad things to say about them outside of this thread, and both were gamers saying they had inferior parts.

Also, my mother has had a Dell desktop PC for over 6 years. It may actually be close to a decade. It still runs - no joke, and while it won't play games or anything, it meets her business/e-mail/documents/photo storage needs.

I liked the specs on the Lenovos, but the Dell gave me more so that's what I went with. I also had a boyfriend who had an Acer laptop for some years that he really enjoyed.

Too late to give you the information now, but that's my 2 cents.