You'd be better served by figuring out which apps you'll need to run on your laptop. Once you know the potential software titles you can determine which OS they run on: Apple or MS. Once you know which OS you need to run, then you can look at the requirements for those apps and make sure your new machine has the oomph to run those same titles.
Now, that's a practical way to determine what you need. Or you can go back to reading someone else's opinion on what you need. And newsflash -- there's no "Best Laptop".
If there was it would be on the Evening News. Simply try not to put cheap parts into your laptop and you should be fine.
I cant really gove you an answer,but what I can give you is a way to a solution, that is you have to find the anglde that you relate to or peaks your interest. A good paper is one that people get drawn into because it reaches them ln some way.As for me WW11 to me, I think of the holocaust and the effect it had on the survivors, their families and those who stood by and did nothing until it was too late.