ASUS/HP/Dell all sell quality laptops, the three come ordered in my personal preference though ASUS can sometimes be on a bit of the high side. HP/Dell are good for mid-range laptops though they're usually lacking in the GPU department with the 7400/7700 GO. ASUS uses the ATI x1700, which is considerably better. Hopefully things will be changing after next month though with AMD/ATI's launch of the r6xx series we might be able to get some info on future mobile Direct X 10 technology.