About a month ago I needed a new phone system for my landline. AT&T had one with 3 or 4 options builtin to stop robo calls. I bought it and set up the option that requires the called to press # to get thur. It works perfect. All robo calls have been blocked 25 to 50 a day. The way it works is when the call comes in it rings 1 time and the machine then intercepts it and instructs the caller to push # on their phone. If that doesn't happen within a few seconds my phone hangs up. If the call is from someone that is in your directory (family members for example) the call passes straight thur.
The phone displays the called ID and keeps a record of the missed calls so that if someone were confused and did not get thru you can call them back. Hopefully I will have a year or 2 before the hackers figure out a work around or the government finds a method to stop robo calling. Of course I will probably be dead by then.

So many here are missing a great opportunity to turn the tables. When I get a live one I string him/her along with vague but ultimately absurd responses until they become so confused and frustrated they lose their cool and finally realize they have been had in reverse. If I could describe my methods better, I'd share them. But it just requires a great deal of spontaneous creativity and a willingness to put aside one's feelings about treating people decently, which is a hard thing to do until you realize that you are simply defending yourself from this scourge of privacy invasions and the contempt others hold for you which enables them to engage in this behavior in the first place.

Toaster science seems to have taken a step forward into the unreliable zone. I was going to say a step backward, but then realized I haven't had one I really liked until the last buy. We now have a Krups 2 slice that works pretty well, but like others went through 3 different brands of unhappiness, did similar with coffee makers till settling on our current Mr.Coffee Stainless Steel carafe model, like it too. We didn't go down the Pod path, never tasted a good cup from those, not anywhere close to our fresh ground fresh brewed happiness.

Hi All:
Thanks for all the input. I was looking at the Acer swift 15.6 with the 4k monitor, SSD etc and the Dell xps series. I like the idea of using a bigger external monitor and saving money on the actual laptop that may not have as good a monitor as I am well used to a large monitor on my desktop.
I was hoping to keep it to about a thousand $ but now figure it will be a bit pricier. Maybe $13-1500.
RE MACs: I, actually my kids, have had 3 macbooks before (all now dead) and my husband does not like them because they are difficult to repair where as with the PC you can open it up and easily replace and upgrade parts. He is technical and likes to do such things.
Again thanks,
Lisainstpete