Best laptopbrands

I dont know much about laptops. I usualy stick to desktops but my friend asked me what was some reputable brands. If anyone or a few ppl could give me a list of name to look for and some 2 stay away from it would be very helpfull.

Best laptop brands for what? Is your friend gaming? A professional who requires a notebook-workstation? Also a price range? Quality can vary depending on the price and what exactly your looking for.

For gaming, Clevo/sager based notebooks have a very good reputation but also carry a hefty price tag. Asus as well as MSI have good gaming notebooks - but I consider their quality 1 tier below clevo/sager based laptops - but they do have better prices for similar specifications.

For basic business computing (word, email, internet) a lenovo based laptop are quite good.

Dell laptops are alright. They are decent all-arounders - but in no way are they great laptops (well besides their alienware offshoot, which hasn't been that great as of late IMO).

Apple Macbooks/air are pretty good as well. Their cases are very well constructed. However you will be paying upwards of 1.5X for similar hardware on a Windows machine. The only "downside" is that if your friend doesn't know much about Apple's OS - it may be useless to him. Also they seem to be somewhat harder to upgrade than other solutions.

To me there isn't really a "bad" laptop brand out there. Every company has issues with some of their models.

Acer laptops - have been playing "catch up" to every other company out there, they have decent netbooks and notebooks, but I wouldn't consider them that great.

For gaming, Asus Republic of Gamers
For animation and video editing, Apple