Anecdotally, I know three people including myself who’ve had ASUS machines die on them right out of warranty protection, and I do not recommend them at all.
For me it's Acer users that always have defects on their laptops. Someone else I know swears by Toshiba. Given how many different opinions there are out there, I feel like we just can't tell which brands are good without doing actual research, and probably we'd have to segregate by things like price band or series and perhaps even by year as teams or executives come and go.
