I'm looking for a new macbook laptop?

I'm looking for a macbook pro. Here is what I'm looking for:
At least 16GB of memory storage
Accessability features for vision, hearing, dislexic, & motion disabilities
A front facing built-in web camera
Can you please help me find the right macbook laptop at a reasonable price? Thank you!

lmk1988 wrote:
Accessability features for vision, hearing, dislexic, & motion disabilities
A MacBook Pro is not for you, sorry.
1: Vision: OS X does not scale the UI to be more friendlier to hard of seeing users, this has been a long standing complaint. Sure you can drop the resoluton and that makes things bigger, but it also makes them blurry.
To remedy this you really need a larger screen (17" or larger) and Windows 7 (better) which has a ability to scale the UI elements larger, OS X lacks this most important feature.
In fact on Windows it's possible to hack it to make the icons and other elements even LARGER than 150%.
2: Hearing is well covered on OS X, dislexia is covered by spell checkers, however motion disabilities there is a wider range of third party compatible hardware/software for Windows than on OS X. (for just about everything)
3: Most Mac's have glossy screens, although there might be a 15" antiglare still available, it's still a 15" thus too small for hard of seeing users who need more screen real estate to scale the UI and text larger to see them.
PC's have 17" anti-glare screens, you have to look for them but they still exist, importance with a anti-glare screen is it's gentler on the eyes than glossy screens.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_computer_system_manufacturers
If you need it to be really big, then a perhaps a antiglare screen monitor and a Windows 7 PC tower desktop would be a better arrangement, but it's not portable. I've seen some people resort to using a projector on a wall as well.
I currently use one of last remaining 17" MacBook Pro's with anti-glare screen, Apple has discontinued the model (and other models in the past few years) as they are moving towards only small tablets and devices chiefly.
With OS X requiring a upgrade annually or be denied security updates in a few years, since you require a custom configuration, it's best that it last as long as possible without expensive and problematic software changes (until 2020 with Windows 7).
So a Windows 7 machine is what you require, not a Mac.

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