Stay away from HP!
All laptops, except a few hard core gaming laptops have the worst fucking keyboards ever made. They suck! Having said that, I use a Toshiba laptop with a Filco Ninja keyboard with MX black switches.
Toshiba seems to be hard to find now, so I'm leaning towards ASUS. Probably an I5 cpu is good enough. I7 will cost more and if you don't need a lot of power, an I5 should be fine. Get a built in SSD and 16GB of RAM. You can find adequate laptops in the $500-700 range that work fine.
A good laptop is Lenovo, but keep in mind these are Chinese. Dell is OK. My company computer is Dell and it works fine.
If you're into Linux, check out Purism.
Good luck.
I have a Lenova. Not bad. In the past I had HP computers. Yes, HP computers are trash. I would choose an ASUS though if getting a new computer.
I'll look into your suggestions, thank you.
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