I did a lot of searching a few months ago. Bought an hp for my dad for his birthday. Wish i wouldn't have. Its been trouble right out of the box. Best buy guy didn't recommend ssd. I think its a must. Have been Dell for the last 10 years. Windows 8 seems complicated to me. I just bought an iMac and run parallels and windows 7 to run excel, word, quickbooks, john deere stuff. It runs windows better than any windows machine will. Very very happy with it. Price was a little more but i feel like a got a lot better machine. Good luck in your search.