I had a Toshiba Satellite lap top for two years. I sent it back to the company twice for warranty work. I won't by another.
I used to recommend Toshiba's for my entire extended family. Toshiba has apparently decided that an infinite turnaround for warranty work is acceptable, and that they would make it impossible to find out if you would ever receive the machine back, much less in a timely fashion. Furthermore it broke again the same way. We're not buying Toshiba any more.
Our ASUS laptops have served us well.