[Quiet Man Cometh]

I've decided it's time for a new laptop. My Stealth (not pro) is three years old now and the battery is wobbly and worse, my games are edging out of its specs. I've been looking at laptops for an hour plus now and all I've gotten myself are second guesses and a headache.

I've consulted my techy relatives and one suggested I go with the ASUS ROG (not totally sure which) but I've heard of keyboard issues (not that I didn't have keyboard issues with this thing) and the one I saw in store didn't appear to have enough USBs (without separate jacks for headset and mic, I need to switch my headset to USB, plus one USB for my mouse at minimum).

So it seems I have a couple snags when picking out a laptop.

Problem 1: I'm picky.
I have a list of must haves and it's hard to find them all in one unit. A right hand number-pad. NVidia 1050 or above Video card. i7 Processor. 12gig or better RAM. Better storage than I have now. 5 pounds or less. (Yeah, that's a hard one).

Problem 2: Price.
I'm in Canada. This seems to mean that whenever I see what looks like a good deal, I'm inevitably on a US website and the real price is actually a few hundred dollars more. I was hoping to spend less on a laptop this time around but I doubt I can pull that off and keep much of my picky list.

At this point, I'm tempted to just get another Stealth but I've heard that MSI has been going a little downhill since I bought this thing in 2014.I thought I'd try and find a new comp all by myself this time! But no...fail. At least for now.