I absolutely require a decent one (at least a 13" screen for resolution/screenspace/keyboard reasons) with a good processor and a good amount of memory (I use enterprise applications and heavy compiling for uni on it). However, my current one essentially popped, fizzled, and went completely kaput. Trust me; it's fucked up beyond all repair.
Suggestions for brands/models? I really don't give a shit about its gaming capabilities, just as long as it has decent battery life and runs well with all the applications I use for computer engineering.
Here's the catch, though: Aside from gas money saved up for next semester (~$400), I have next to nothing to spend on this laptop. I need to raise like ~$800 and pay this motherfucker straight-up (nobody is going to give unemployed college student a loan) by the end of next week, without doing anything illegal. Otherwise, I'm pretty much fucked.
God damn it. I wanted to play Skyrim, too. And don't ask me to torrent it; I don't want to steal a game I would have otherwise bought, and plus it would suck up way too large a large portion of my monthly bandwidth.