Help me pick my new laptop.

The more I look the more I get confused. My HP DV7-1000 is over 6 yrs old and dieing. I want a quality built laptop and am willing to pay. In the past 6 yrs this HP has had its DVD/CD drive replaced and recently the fan died, other then that, it has been a good machine. I do not game but prefer a larger screen. It is plugged in 95% of time so long battery life is not necessary. This will be used to surf, email, create simple documents, watch movies, uTube, etc. I don't think I even need a DVD/CD internal player, I would be OK with an optical drive I plug in when I occasionally need one. I do not store a lot on the HD, the 350Gig in this one is fine, in fact a SSD probably would be fine but they are very expensive, I guess a combo, SSD for OS and 250/300 Gig HD for all the other stuff. CPU, as I will keep this for as long as possible, I want a late model that will handle changes in the future. Again for that reason RAM should be 8 gig for future needs. As I don't game I guess an internal good GPU would be sufficient. Networking I would want the best, as I sure that will be changing a lot in the yrs to come. I know I'm missing some other specs but I think you all get the point. Good quality, good service I would pay extra for, for at least 3yrs. I've looked at all the biggies, Dell, HP, Lenovo, Acer etc and even some gaming type MSI, Alienware, Eurocom (Canadian). I guess I looked too much as now I'm confused and unsure, I guess I would even have one built if it came to that. Quality, costs up to $1500+/- and service. I will respond if someone out there want to ask me more. I hope I have not bored you with my small problem and I hope this is the place to publish this call for help.....Thanks, Stan

 

If you're looking for long term reliability, and price is little to no object, I favor Lenovo ThinkPads rather heavily. I have to say I love the keyboards on them most of all. They are not the flat key types like most machines have. They are very responsive, and the closest you will come to having a laptop with a desktop keyboard.

 

the mekanic....yes they look good, thanks

 

JoeRay12, thanks, went to site, great stuff, not sure if it's best to buy and ship fm UK. Couldn't see all specs, what I did was fine like $850 for 17" 8 mem 1.3 chip didn't see network/WiFi stuff but what I did see was amazing. Folks say, I should wait till Win 10, if this one doesn't die, but your rec was eye opening, thanks again....Stan