It's time to buy a new laptop, requirements:
Media center (films/tv on the move - I commute a lot).
Music (sound system will connect to it)
internet
office management - usual programs for word/excel etc
super lightweight/sleek etc (I commute a lot!)
Long life of reliability.. I'm gonna want this to last 4-5 years, both in terms of hardware & physical durability.
budget is tops £1,000 (no point going over this as I don't need a machine that powerful, would just be a waste of resources.)
Was looking at ultrabooks but I'm beginning to think a macbook air 13" 1.8ghz, 4g ram, 128gig ssd is my best bet (£999)
was hoping there'd be a way of saving money as a long term linux user (I will never go back to windows) by buying a machine with no os & putting my own on it, but this seems to be only doable from small random companies (novatech in portsmouth uk being one, system 76 based in the states being another) but I a couple of google searches indicates that although they're good, they're not great, & if things go wrong, the amount of hassle to go through to get the issue sorted negates the whole point of doing it in the first place.
is a grand on a macbook a waste of money given that I don't use any particularly demanding applications? the only way I'm an intensive user is that my laptop is firing away almost all day every day, whether I'm listening to music, doing work or watching tv etc..
any help mucho appreciated. would quite like to use tomorrow as my excuse to buy as it's my birfday
fuck macs.