I need to consult the beeb for help with a laptop or ultrabook for my son. He is 10 and I bought him THIS for Christmas as I felt the touchscreen and lack of DVD drive was a negative for the Ultrabook variety. He said he would prefer the touchscreen but I dont have experience with them other than the iPad's we have. I do prefer to do this type of business with Best Buy as they have always been good to us on everything from appliances to TV's and have bent over backwards several times. Question is.. is it worth it to do the touchscreen with windows 8 and is Samsung, HP, Lenovo, Acer, or Asus better to go with. Help appreciated in advance.
From my limited knowledge the boards in them are all very much the same. Samsung is a good brand and I wouldn't hesitate to buy the one you linked. The touch screen in Win8 is nice and the lack of a DVD drive isn't a real issue to me. What do you think he'd use the DVD drive for? Worst case you can spend another $50-$70 and get a USB DVD drive for those rare occasions.
Ipad mini is the perfect size for a 10 year old. Bought them for my mom and sister, they love em. $330 from the apple store.
he uses it for school, and needs Office 2010 on it. I just dont know if the touchscreen is worth it or not for Win8
I would not consider it a must have. While the start menu and the App store apps may be finger friendly all the underlying OS interface is not really designed with finger use in mind. If you are buying an Ultrabook...pick one. They are all essentially the same with only minor spec differences.
ASUS VivoBook S400CA-DH51T 14.1-Inch touchscreen Intel Core i5-3317U(1.7GHz ) 500GB 5400RPM+ 24GB SSD 4GB DDR3 RAM Intel HD Graphics 4000 Price:around $700
