If I needed a laptop I would buy that Dell 15.6” FHD immediately. I would install a storage HD or SSD. Being so Apple oriented you don’t know what the most annoying bugaboo is with Windows Intel/AMD machines. That 33% of the ones I see do not shut down properly all the time. Do not wake up properly all the time.....> Do you ever see this with Apple products?
Mac shutdown/startup is rarely an issue. I get a Mac, it works. Period.
Oddly, it’s the cross-platform development software for other operating systems that most often cause problems shutting down (this isn’t a problem for most users; I write apps).
HD is passé.
Buy notebook with a properly matched SSD installed, no time/effort spent installing nor fixing it. By the time it gets “too small” you’ll want to replace the whole machine for good reason (lots of other feature improvements).
Apple ecosystem is increasingly cloud-leveraging, so local storage size isn’t that big a deal. Plug in an external drive if needed, USB is plenty fast (keep high-speed data onboard).
I’ve been a PC devotee since the original IBM PC ... until about 8 years ago, when I jumped ship to iOS programming, went all-in for Apple, and never looked back.
25-50¢/day is not too expensive. Get a cheaper alternative, and you’ll spend more in lost time.