Thanks for the replies everybody. I went ahead and bought an HP laptop; got my Windows 10 upgrade too but I guess everyone here knew everyone's getting it.
That's true; I mostly like to fix things myself or with the help of a community before asking around for help from an OEM, but I'm also worried about hardware issues. You see, with my Android phone, I know that rooting it voids ALL warranty, even when all I need for them is to fix a defective...
I've been out of the PC market for a long time. Right now, I've got an old, assembled AMD/ASUS desktop from 2007, which my dad bought and helped me build for personal use. It's been running XP ever since and I've painfully upgraded the hardware over time. More recently, I've used Windows 7 at...