I'm looking at laptops mostly because that's what I've gotten for the last 4 or 5 computers. I no longer travel with my laptop as I use my smart phone as my computer on the road. Also, I'm set up in my living room with a laptop, monitor, external keyboard and external mouse.
The vast majority of what I do is read email and browse. I am known to have 5 browsers and over 50 tabs open at one time. Mostly I'd like the quick response that 16M and an SSD would give. My C: driver currently is using 158GB so a 256GB SSD would be fine for the near future.
I won't pay more than $700 before sales tax and would prefer to pay less. Maybe I should be looking for a desktop?