Thinking now more in terms of an actual laptop. Any suggestions on make etc? Touch screen would be nice - or would it? Anyone have experience with one? Something preferably relatively light, with a good easy-to-see screen, decent battery life, a few USB slots and maybe a CD drive is the kind of thing I'm looking for. And obviously a sturdy and responsive keyboard. Probably 4GB RAM and maybe 500 gig to 1 tb HDD.

FYIIAC (FYI If Anyone Cares) looking at this one at the moment:

https://www.lifewire.com/best-touchs...aptops-4134190
https://images-na.ssl-images-amazon....1zODI7JCDL.jpg

^Solid choice.

Yeah? I'm really thinking about pulling the trigger, though I might wait for Amazon Prime day. Only a week away now...

Any newer dell latop will pretty much do whatever you need it to do. Especially if you're just a simple computer user. So yeah, I'd say go for it if you can get it on sale too.

GOOD ADVICE: Go bigger on RAM! Windows 10 OS eats up 2 GB of RAM itself just to operate. And only like 3.45 of that 4 GB is actually usable [like storage space on a hard drive, they always fuck you.]. So 4 GB of RAM while running Windows 10 is really like having 1.5 GB :eek: This is life.

Yeah I'm going for an 8 gb model, definitely. And 1tb hdd space. To hell with SSD and their ****ing tiny storage: I need a proper hard disk.

SSD for boot drive / main programs is an incredible performance increase over HDD btw. Might want to consider having both.

Yep I am. But too many of these come with ONLY SSD and that's no good to this guy. Also want touchscreen (as opposed to what I originally wrote, which was torchscreen!) as those bloody inbuilt trackpads drive me mad.

When I bought a computer a few weeks ago, I had the choice of 1TB regular hard drive or 250GB SSD. I went with the SSD because I know that I'll find a way around the space limits.

I've been copying my music library and such to the new computer and, currently, I've got ~80GB left. Not a lot, but I know that the last 40-60GB are gonna last me a long, long time. I don't save movies and such, and I only keep the music I actually have on disc, so my storage needs are limited. I also have a large external HDD for backups.

I doubt I'll regret my choice (blink-of-an-eye computer boot times are still blowing my mind!), but of course it depends hugely on personal habits.