Well I cant make up my mind on what to buy

cobra11

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1. What is your budget?
500 ebay


2. What is the size of the notebook that you are considering?
preferably 17inch but 15.6 is ok

3. What screen resolution do you want?
1080p

4. Do you need a portable or desktop replacement laptop?
yes for college

5. How much battery life do you need?
pretty decent 4+ maybe??

6. Do you want to play games with your laptop? If so then please list the games that you want to with the settings that you want for these games. (Low,Medium or High)?
casual ones, diablo 3, maybe elder scrolls online from time to time no preference on settings

7. What other tasks do you want to do with your laptop? (Photo/Video editing, Etc.)
typeing papers mainly, and research

8. How much storage (Hard Drive capacity) do you need?
this doesnt matter, I have ssd's and other things laying around

9. If you are considering specific sites to buy from, please post their links.
ebay.com (yes I know lol, however got money that I need to spend on it so)

10. How long do you want to keep your laptop?
as long as possible

11. What kind of Optical drive do you need? DVD ROM/Writer,Bluray ROM/Writer,Etc ?
this isnt a big deal any or none is fine

12. Please tell us about the brands that you prefer to buy from them and the brands that you don't like and explain the reasons.
Dell, Toshiba, Asus, I really dislike HP and any AMD's id rather stay away from but im open to any suggestions.

13. What country do you live in?
USA

14. Please tell us any additional information if needed.
build in speakers have to be pretty great and when I say that, I mean kinda like Harmon Kardon, I really dislike laptops that have very weak speakers.. sure I could get a external system but id rather not if I can avoid that, also would like to have a pretty decent display on it

I also have been looking at the macbook pro 15 2010 but really decided that might not be the best route as they could stop supporting it in 3 year time..


Also ive been working on computers for the last 6 years I am a PC guy, have used windows 10 previews since the begging, but im really lost on which laptops to look at that have came out the last 3-4 years