my ASUS still works and i got it in 2009 ish. just needs a power cord my upgrade was to a lenovo but 1 it was on sale at costco so i get a 2yrs warrenty, not a 1, and 2 it's advertised as a gamer's laptop since i wanted a yummy graphics card.
i've had 3 dell towers and 1 dell laptop. 2 of the towers have had BSOD issues, and the third the screeching (and a faulty BIOS where i lost control of my keyboard within owning it for a few months and had to call dell tech support and get a download strictly by using a mouse cause the keyboard driver was dead). the new tower i got for my mom works pretty well but i'm 99% sure it's not a dell. might be an HP - it's not yummy as my laptop, but it runs 10 and can be a decent gamer box.