It's not a laptop but an Amazon Echo is excellent for Music, Audible books and Podcasts. Hard to beat how well the immediate voice recognition works. Home autom

It's not a laptop but an Amazon Echo is excellent for Music, Audible books and Podcasts. Hard to beat how well the immediate voice recognition works. Home automation works but it's a try and see if it works for you type of situation. It's worth investigating for your needs. Also it's relatively inexpensive. I should add that home automation needs additional hardware and costs. But you can buy an on/off plug for a bit under $30.00.