Help me with my computer research pleeeeeez.

So. Since I have a job again, even if it only goes for 3 months at this point, I will probably use my savings to buy a new laptop which I desperately need. My iPod has 5 times the memory of my current one, for a start, so I will never fill it up at this rate.

Anyway, I don't want a mac (nothing personal, but everything else I've got - bar the iPod - is PC and I'm entrenched).

I don't play games, well, except Spider Solitaire, so I need it mainly for writing, photo management and my music/films. I