What is you favorite brand for laptops?

Dell makes great laptops
HP makes great Laptops
IBM is at the top of my list.

For Games Dell makes a great desktop replacment laptop alleinware is better built.
IBM has a great laptop very well built and the battery last long time.

HP has a great laptop as well.
It all come down to what do you want the laptop to do.

[trilect]

I prefer IBM laptops with the magnesium cases, but for personal use I usually buy dell.

Currently I have a dell xps laptop, its not very light thought but its more of a desktop replacement than a true portable.

[Jay Kyle]

I've used Dell, Toshiba, IBM, Compaq laptops. My favorite is the IBM, with the Toshiba as a 2nd. If your going to use it in your shop get a ruggedized version.

Jay

[PaulH]

Consumer Reports likes the various Toshiba models. They usually review the Satellite series only because that is what you find in most of the stores.

The Tecra series tends to have a few less bells and whistles but be better built; it is meant for the businessman who needs a laptop to be ultimately reliable, but doesn't care about gaming features.

[xflukec]

The IBM is a very well engineered machine,I have had three thinkpads with no trouble at all,then for a change I bought a Toshiba Tecra S1 and had to return it for service three times in the first year.On each occasion the repair was very slow.from now on I will only buy IBM,you pay more but to me it is worth it.

[alfalfa]

Have to agree with the Alienware post, but there are alternatives. I have a Sager. Incredible. Every port you can imagine, huge screen, and rock solid. Sager is made by the same company as Alienware, just not the big price. Also check Clevo, Prostar, and I think there are a couple of others that are made by the same company.

[ViperTX]

Compaq, Toshiba, Dells Lattitude, IBM in that order....from a price point....Dell, Compaq, Toshiba, IBM.

[HuFlungDung]

I bought an HP Pavilion zd8000 series widescreen, so I'd have something that would play a modern 3d shooter when I'm away on holidays, since that is about the only time I feel like gaming I'm very happy with it, it beats the pants off my current at-home desktop pc, performance wise.

This HP is a desktop replacement, so it is heavy, and the battery life is about an hour, but that is good enough for me to fire up the thing, plug in my GPS and find out where the heck I am

Oh, I had an IBM T30 Thinkpad previously, and it was also a nice solid little machine. Only 800mhz, but still good enough to run my cad on, even with its limited graphics capability.

[anoel]

We have over 40,000 IBM Laptops at my workplace... We've been through other vendors for laptops but IBM from a Business / service / reliablity / durability / total cost of ownership standpoint is Tops... Second in line is HP/Compaq... Dell makes a nice laptop but on our last purchasing round they lost out for a variety of reasons. For Personal use though they are really nice but... From a corporate/business stance I don't think the quality is up there like their Optiplex series is for business use.

IBM's failure rate is hard to beat...

[RTP_Burnsville]

IBM, Toshiba, Dell Lattitude.