For “nice” I love my ASUS ROG G752VT-DH72 17 Inch Gaming Laptop. Actually, mine is a little older version (12G memory), but it is beautiful and awesomely powerful (but also heavy and big/bulky).
What I use 80% of the time, however, is the $120 HP Chromebook that I bought from a FB for-sale page. Think of it as a “Macbook Air without requiring taking out a second mortgage”.
If one doesn’t have a need for MS Office, and is not a hardcore gamer (there plenty of decent games available for Chromebooks), and if one spends 95% of their time using a browser, then a Chromebook is fantastic. (They are also good to give to the more elderly, unsophisticated users, as they are not targeted by the great majority of viruses).
Yeah, that’s about 3 times my budget. As for Chromebooks, I deeply distrust Google.