I had a Dell laptop (that I very uncreatively named Della) for years before she crapped out and wouldn't turn on last fall.
Now I have an ASUS laptop that I bought from my brother for a song. He's an IT guy, and it was his personal laptop for about a year, and he souped it up I think he only offered to sell it to me so I'd stop sending him billions of questions on FB about which laptop I should buy