Honestly, Mary, I would just go to Costco and pick one you like in your price range. These days, laptops are commodities with the innards all produced by the same handfuls of companies. Costco has a great return policy. Get something with at least 8GB of RAM (preferably 12 or 16) and at least a 256GB solid state drive (SSD - this type of hard drive is MUCH FASTER than the traditional type and is generally pretty standard these days but make sure you get one). All laptops come with at least 1-2 USB-C ports (the new, smaller one) and usually just 1 USB-A port (the old fashioned rectangular type that's been around for 25 years). If you need more ports you just buy a dock that plugs into one of the USB-C ports and has a bunch of ports on it for power, monitor, keyboard/mouse/scanner/printer/whatever. Everything connects between the dock and you via the single USB-C connection, which also provides power.