Dell sucks, my friend bought a dell xps, and within 6 months his mobo start to fire him up, support was fast, but ask him to pay $300 every year to extend warranty period. His mobo burns out every few months.
Alienware, Dell, Lenovo are the best. For Multimedia and gaming Alienware M17 is one of the best .It has a Intel Core 2 Quad processor, 2 ATI CrossFireX video cards, 1TB hard drive, and 8GB of DDR3 RAM. It also has a Blue-Ray dvd player .Its price is $3800.The best Business Laptop is Thinkpad x 301 from Lenovo. Its very durable, has a Intel Core 2 Duo processor,4GB of DDR3 RAM, has a Solid State Hard drive, it comes with a dvd writer, 1.3 Megapixel camera, it also has many security measures to make sure your important documents don’t get into the wrong hands, compared to other laptops its battery life is around 4.3 hours.