They just laid off a shit ton of employees and the RMA has gone downhill recently. Shame evga are not around in the gpu space.

Bought 3 laptop from them, all had QA issues. Never again.

My only Asus hardware that works with no issue is my current access point.

That's always a recommended brand. Never had much luck with their laptops, but had a real old Asus router that I liked.

Yep. I'm sure they've made some duds, but they are my go to brand. Have been impressed in one way or another with everything I've had from them.

My number two is Lenovo.

For smaller things I'm a fan of Anker, and I admit for cables I usually just find something cheapish on Amazon that gets good reviews.

my last 4 or 5 computer builds have been Asus motherboards and i;ve had great luck with them, and my mini-pcs are all Asus PN50/51 Ryzen based NUC-alikes, they are excellent. I use one as my main workstation modded into a fanless case.

I feel like their quality slipped lately however, might be part of their cost cutting before they restructured recently. will have to keep an eye on how they do in the future.

For ultra-budget laptops however, I lean towards Lenovo they have been so good to me over the years.