Well everyone is entitled to their own opinion, but if you are just looking for recommendations I would have to say the HP or Compaq are the best in my opinion, the one I have is a HP G71-442NR
17.3" laptop with Intel Pentium Dual-Core processor T4300 ?Intel Pentium Dual-Core processor T4300 ?17.3" HD display ?3GB OF RAM WITH 320GB Hard Drive ?Windows 7 Home Premium 64-bit<----- This was Copy and Pasted, sorry, too much to actually type<-----
And it works great, and it is only about 600 dollars at walmart, compared to one of similar specs from dell cost about 1k, so they are well worth the money, but that is if you aren't playing decked out games, because it has a low spec graphics card, but it can play Bioshock 1, on medium quality, so thats pretty good I guess!!