I had to buy a new laptop a few weeks ago when the Lenovo finally crapped o ut (what a POS!) I picked up an HP Envy at Costco with Win 10 of course. First thing I did was disable the touch screen. Like nearly every other ma chine around I can't use the touch pad because it doesn't have separate but tons. So I have to plug in a mouse dongle which isn't too bad on this mach ine because the socket is near the back, so I can leave it in without fear of damaging the laptop bag.
Anyway... it has issues with the keyboard enough that I'm going to return i t. I have 3 more weeks to do that. I'm not really finding anything else w ith a better keyboard that isn't getting up in price. I also need a lower priced laptop or one of those small case PCs for use with a test fixture. I stumbled across a number of listings for refurbished Dell Precision M4700 s. Don't know why there seem to be so many. Some are sold "grade B" (scra tches and dings) and/or without hard drive or OS usually with low memmory. I found one listing at Newegg that is under $500 with a SSD and 16 GB. Th is could be usable for my main PC and if it works ok for the test fixture I could buy another one maybe at a lower price.
I guess this got to be a bit of a rant. I really hated the Lenovo and the keyboard thing with the new HP and Dells is ridiculous. I guess I'm just a sking if anyone (Jeff?) is familiar with the M4700 and can offer advice. T he only features I'm not crazy about is the lower res display HD720 and lac k of Blue tooth which may just be a lack of drivers for Win 10 which it com es with.
Rick C.