FWIW, anything you see at Staples, Office Depot or the likes are going to be of the same caliber. There really is not one that is better than the other. Toshiba has saturated the market with their product although they have a reputation for loosing hard drives. If you want something of better quality, Micron makes a nice series of laptops. Other than that, you'll either spend a lot of money for a higher quality laptop or under a $1000 for your everyday, run of the mill laptop. I know, I fix them all the time.
One thing people don't know is that you get a lot less computer in a laptop than you get with a desktop of equal price. Since I hand build all of my desktop PC's, I can build one heck of a box for a thousand bucks. If you absolutely, positively must be mobile with your computer, then you need a laptop. If not, you are sorely wasting money.