If you're open to MacBook recommendations my suggestion would be to go to
an Apple store and look around. One plus on a Mac is you can run more than
one version of Windows on the same machine. More expensive? Yes but
there are other pluses as well. I've had my 15 inch Mac for 5 years and it's
still rolling.

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"What you hear in a great jazz band is the sound of democracy. “The jazz band works best when participation is shaped by intelligent communication.”
Harmony happens whenever different parts get to form a whole by means of congruity, concord, symetry, consistency, conformity, correspondence, agreement, accord, unity, consonance…….