laptop is virgin never connected to internet... so yes

as far as paper wallets i wanted to avoid those because i would like to put a few backups away in different locations long term so i would not have quick access to or be able to supervise them on a regular basis. This is why i purchased a couple ironkeys with Hardware/sodtware encryption.

Armory i looked into but seems a little complicated having to run multiple softwares/updates....

as you guys can see im a a little  confused on how exactly this cold storage / offline storage works....

if anyone can point me to a good guide or how to would be greatly appreciated.