I've been pretty impressed with the HP business-class laptops.
Lenovo's have been really good for our family, too. My daughter has a newish Lenovo Yoga and I REALLY like how small and light it is. It has a pretty small screen, but it is pretty friggin cool.
While I share your trepidation about filling up the hard disk, it might be unwarranted. I mean, what kind of big content do you really need? You've got all your pictures, video and audio on your NAS anyway, so what's going to fill all that space?
