* Many of my lecturers had used the earlier Acer Notebooks with one common problem, i.e. the notebook used to hang without any notice I had since then avoided Acer notebooks [I am not sure whether Acer had improved on this or not, but I am still not confident enough to own Acer notebooks now!]
* I have an NEC notebook [it is still being used in my office] what a good notebook it is! Plus points: very stable and reliable...and its heat sink is excellent. It is on all the time [24x7]
* Recently, I had purchased a Toshiba netbook [small and cute little fellow]. Not much problem except the battery life sucks big time [less than 1.5 hours on continuous and rigourous use ]
* Some of my students recommended Acer netbook which has excellent battery power.
* My first notebook was a HOKOMO brand, yucks, it got spoilt within a year , then I bought a Twin head notebook, it was also a lemon
Buy IBM ThinkPad series, if they're still selling it.
Amazingly I've not seen any lemon in ThinkPad. All my bosses using ThinkPad.
How about Sony Vaio?