The highest ranked laptops in every category by Consumer Reports for the last 10 years has been Apple laptops.
You don't know what you're talking about. You can't do any of this. Get Dell to guarantee Microsoft software will run on their hardware forever. Get Microsoft to guarantee their software will always run on Dell. Get Microsoft to sell you operating system upgrades for $30. Get either to guarantee your hardware will work with all their software and all their products together seamlessly just by plugging them in to each other. Just try and take your Dell or Microsoft product to a local store and get it fixed. You can't! You can do any of that with Apple products. Apple products were rated #1 by Consumer Reports for reliability and service over Dell and all other manufacturers for at least 10 years in a row.
Get a Mac, well worth the money. Or you can consider Asus, been using it for 8 years without any issues.
Dell is the best brand for me, because I am using Dell Laptop from last 3 years and I am very happy with my Lapi.. and til now I have not faced any problem. Dell is the best brand for Laptop or You can go for Dell Inspiron 14R Laptop Its Price: Rs. 29,999
I definitely would go with a Toshiba or an HP. They are very consistent and always seem to be reliable and keep to their word. Other laptops in my experience usually don't last long and always have something that is falsely advertised.