What laptop would you recommend, apple, acer, or Toshiba?

None of them.
Apple is too expensive for the hardware and has a canned operating system with very little freeware available for it.
Acer has a low quality history going back many years.
Toshiba is now known to have excessive bloatware included.

If I had to choose brands, Lenovo that is not the Essentials G series, or an Asus that is not the cheapest ones they offer.

Samsung no longer is in the lower priced laptops business.
http://www.rescuecom.com/...#more-8411

What made you choose those three?

Because my sister has apple and loves it… My mom has the Toshiba and she thinks i should get one and the acer i just thought of because it was cheep… So, Ya!