Laptop Advice please

[[TC]»Pete«]

Nathan, not sure if you've considered netbooks.

I have my Gaming PC and this little beauty:

ASUS X102B 10.1 Touchscreen
(Include Windows 8 + W10 upgrade + Office 2013)

http://www.amazon.co.uk/X102B-10-1-inch-...B00FC55SVO





It comes with a 500GB HDD and 4GB of RAM, both of which can be upgraded (I am considering a 256GB SSD and 8GB of RAM which would cost around £110 and would make it fly), a fantastic touch screen, 1 GHz AMD A4-APU + AMD Radeon 8180G, which surprised me, making it perfect for dual screening (no performance loss), HDMI, VGA, 2xUSB2.0, 1x USB3.0, combined headphone/mic jack, ~6 hour battery life. I'm running Ubuntu 14.04 and Windows 10 Consumer Preview on it at the moment and it's the perfect dev machine as well as being ideal for day to day messing around like browsing. Runs Photoshop like a charm. With an external DVD drive (~£20) it would end up costing you around £240 if you got it now. With the upgrade I suggested you're still only looking at £350 (cheaper than most shitty laptops).

For some reason, it's £25 more expensive than when I bought it but it's still easily worth that price if you're up for getting a netbook.

I've owned two laptops and since owning this little thing, I am completely sold on netbooks. You won't believe how good having a very small notebook is until you try using one for things. It's way more portable and convenient than any of the previous laptops I've owned. If you're willing to learn to use a keyboard that is only just smaller than a full size keyboard (10.1"), the only annoyance for the first few weeks of owning it.

EDIT: The reason it's more expensive is because this one has a slightly better processor than mine. Also, at the time of posting, there's a red version available here for £197!!!: http://www.amazon.co.uk/X102B-10-1-inch-...B00FC55SVO