Imo, Acer does really suck. My friend has a 17" Acer laptop, and that thing is fucking huge. I've got a 17" HP Pavilion laptop, and that one is alot slimmer than that Acer of my friend.
PC - definitely homemade ones as for laptops hmm Toshiba would be my best guess though. All the ones I have played on seem to be pretty cool. My dad has a Gateway laptop and its fine but nothing fancy and its pretty old.
Alienware got to be the best brand as its the only one I have never had to repair and would be my number one pick, only if it didnt cost so much money.
Asus and MSI make good computer parts, never seen a computer made by them selfs yet.
Compaq & Hewlett Packard are the same company. There Compaq laptops better than the HP ones for some reason.
Acer is 110% the worse one you can ever get, along with e-systems and advent. Most break down after a year and are the ones which I had to repair the most.
Lolz. I'd only buy a Asus EEE if they'd put in more flash memory, I'd suppose at least 64gb, and at least 2GB of RAM.
But I suppose that is coming, but that it eventually will take some time to stick that in such a small 8,9" laptop.