that was thorough. They went over every component, component by component, and every peripheral (e.g. DVD drives, monitor) peripheral by peripheral, suggesting what to get, what to avoid, suggested minimums like memory amounts and disk size (and type, e.g. the type that is actually memory chips -- SSD -- Solid State Drive. Or conventional hard drive), yada. I so miss that they don't do that anymore (probably not in the past 10 years).
There's probably something like that out there somewhere on the Interwebs 
, or maybe the Intertubes , I hope so, because I've got an 11 year old computer (which is my main and only computer) and I don't know what I would have done in the past without a guide like that when I last purchased a computer (April 2011).
I've never owned a laptop, so I'm sorry that I don't have any useful advice at all, other than avoid Best Buy.
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