Buying a new windows laptop, I need your help and ideas.

Looking for recommendations & thoughts about my expectations:

Anything under $1500 is in my range, but you could convince me to stretch a little more.

Should I stay with Win 10 or bump to 11?
I want 8-16 ssd ram and 1tb ssd hard drive, is there any reason to stay with ddr hard drive?

Is there a reason I should stay with 500G hard drive? I can't go lower than that.
if both ram and hard drive are ssd, is there a preferable combo?

I can live without a cd drive by keeping old laptop around for copies I need to make for my car with cd drive.

I like Lenovo. Before I retired my last laptop that my employer had for me was a Lenovo.
Do I need to change my mind on that? Is anything else good/better?

I bought this HP in 2014 so I'm getting antsy for a new one...

Will look forward to all replies and your thoughts.

Meet GQP Congressional primary candidate in IN-7: Rusty Johnson

Decided to throw his hat in the ring when he woke up in the middle of the night arguing with God in a dream whether or not he should run.
Maybe he heard about the cocaine orgies?

https://www.rustyforcongress.com

"I keep hearing about politicians who keep saying I, I, I. It’s all about them. Then we have the incumbent who is running on his celebrity status. (Who knew)? He is all about me, me, me! Do we really want an I, I, I to replace a me, me, me? What ever happened to you, the people? I,I,I and me, me, me never talk about you."

Two new items from a friend in Germany

1. Germany has banned all flights from Russia as of 3pm German time.

2. Putin has activated nuclear forces, whatever that means.

Lin Wood Prediction ?

Article on Huffington Post is saying both Rittenhouse and MTG are throwing Lin Wood under the bus. They Don't like him anymore.

Rittenhouse says he is nuts.
MTG doesn't like Lin wood now because he won't pay Kyle's lawyer fees that he had collected in a fund.

Maybe Lin Wood will be indicted soon? or sooner than other Jan 6 players?
Seems like something could be up with these two idiots cutting Wood free.

Very Easy To Use

So what is Biden supposedly doing with aid to Israel? Lindsey and reichwingers outraged.

I'm sure it's something they saw on Fox news, but I have a couple hornets outside the nest on aid to Israel. Supposedly Biden is screwing it all up?

Oh also they are certain that God is coming after us because of this.

A.B. Stoddard on MSNBC just drove me off.

She should be on Fox. Talking smack.
I'm watching MeTV now.

Which Republican Senators are in Russia today, this July 4th?

I give up. What does TFG stand for?

Something to do with trump?

In about an hour, I will definitely be reinstated in bed.

I'm getting sleepy.