"Laptops are great but you might get bang for your buck with a desktop solution. 

Since you are going to buy rather than do it yourself, always make sure to get the extended warranty.  Sure it's squeeze, but it also eases the way for any returns."

It has to be a laptop. I am a mariner and am away from home 10 months out of the year.

If I had a nickle for ever time a woman told me to get lost, I could buy Manhattan.