I've had experience with Acer (if you can call it that) it was very bad - but still, if you like it try it.
What exactly are you looking for, Compaq are good all round, but have some annoyances. Toshiba are expensive but built beautifully with high specs. Sony are like Compaq,nice all round, worse in some areas, better in others.
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Who's General Failure and why's he reading my disk?