Well, a lot of that is very pie-in-the-sky. All I currently do on the computer is read fanfic, tumblr, and message boards, screw around on Discord watch videos and dig giant holes in Minecraft. If I knew what parts I actually wanted instead of just daydreaming about I could probably figure out where to get but I do not.

I am OK with assembling things myself as long as I don't have to solder anything! I think I have swapped out every bit of a laptop except processors at this point, but soldering boards scares me (and did not go well the one time I tried.) I would rather not have to buy and install Windows myself, though, that feels like just adding injury to insult.

I would prefer not to deal with port hubs in that I own several right now and it never seems worth the trouble to mess with them as opposed to just dealing with not being able to plug stuff in. Also right now two of the three USB ports in my laptop are a bit unreliable, which always seems like one of the first bits to fail, so I am a bit dubious of trying to run everything through one or two ports as opposed to actually having some redundancy built in. (I'm fine with daisy-chaining adapters if I *have* to, but if I'm outlining my perfect laptop I'd rather not *have* to.)