Linked is the laptop I bought today off amazon. It's got pretty good reviews and it's a solid upgrade from this ddr3 mechanical hdd msi I've been using since 2013. What spurred on the purchase is that I got a bsod a couple weeks back, explorer keeps crashing, and the drive for the last 3 days has been running at 100% nonstop.

I do plan on either doing something with linux mint or perhaps downgrading to windows 10 (since I have an actual copy of it at home).

Hope this works out! I really, really, needed an upgrade badly.