Any of the travelmate series are good. I just bought 2 of the 4000 series with 2gb ram.

My missus has an Aspire 5550 that is a good machine.

I have an Aspire 1703 (Desktop Replacement)

I have another 2 veriton desktop PC's

Also an early 2000 series travelmate is good if you can still get them

btw remember, computer manufacturers are like holden and ford. They are all the same but everybody will tell you how one is a piece of shit over the other.

ps stay away from Dell they are pieces of shit