New laptop recommendations please

[trillian]

[QUOTE=Mike Sanders;n2247080]I have HP Envy 13 inch laptop which works very well for what I want. I don't stream films etc. but it is OK for you tube. I have had it for about 5 years now. I also have a HP Pavilion 17 inch which is OK but not quite as nice to use as the older model. [/QUOTE]

[SIZE=14px][FONT=Arial]I still have an HP Pavillion G, 15 inch, AMD processor and minimal spec for RAM and HD. It was fine for traveling on short holidays, but was still a bit of a let-down compared to my big desktop screen at home. But what happens over time, and it seem particularly with laptops, is that Windows gets slower and slower due to a buildup of program files and personal settings etc. You can clean up some of that, and delete things like old temp files etc. but this one is at the point where it just needs to be wiped and do a clean Windows install. So I'm thinking this is the time to just get something new, fast, big, light, and have the kind of situation I did back in 2009 where when I travel I've got the exact same computer environment with me all the time.[/FONT][/SIZE]

[p4ddy]

Well 5.5 years later we bought a new laptop & we're very happy with it. I recently almost bought a dell, then a lenovo but that felt cheap & horrible to type on. I looked at the apple's but I could not stand the mac os screen...looked like a mobile phone. I ended buying a MSI Vector GP77 steelseries with i7 13700, Nvidia GTX 4070, 16gb ram (upgradeable to 64gb) and 1TB ssd, 17.3in QHD sreen, 100% dci-p3, and fancy customizable rgb keyboard.

[trillian]

[SIZE=14px][FONT=Arial]Last year I got a Dell Inspiron, i7, 16gb ram, Invidia 3050, 512GB SSD. It's a 16 inch screen and it's '3K', so it can do 3072x1920, win 11. It has a nice keyboard feel, it's very light.
One thing that always frustrates me with laptops is the pad / trackball etc. So I have a Razer Viper mouse that I take with me.

I looked at a lot of others, and it was a matter of having a screen a bit bigger than my HP, but still keep it light and portable and more than the usual 'HD' resolution.[/FONT][/SIZE]