Daughter needs a laptop.

NewHere_10

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Is this a good deal? It's $999.00 at Best Buy and here are the specifications. I'm just not used to making these kinds of purchases and a co worker suggested I ask here. Thanks for the help.

Exterior 10.81 x 6.81 x 0.53in 2 lbs

Storage 128GB SSD

Display 10.6" Display
1920x1080 pixels
16:9

CPU Intel Core i5 Processor with Intel HD Graphics 4000

4GB RAM—Dual Channel Memory

Wireless Wi-Fi (802.11a/b/g/n)

Bluetooth 4.0 Low Energy technology

Battery 42 W-h

Cameras and A/V 720p HD Cam, Microphone, Stereo speakers

Ports Full-size USB 3.0

microSDXC card slot

Headset jack

Mini DisplayPort

Power Supply 48W power supply
 
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So you are wanting a small form factor computer?
Here's a neat little computer from Lenovo called the Twist

http://www.lenovo.com/products/us/laptop/thinkpad/thinkpad-twist/

tator_80

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I would suggest lenovo to. If it's for your daughter i can see that 128Gig SSD filling really really fast with either pictures or music, unless you are buying an external hard drive. SSD are all for speed, that's probably why its nearly $1000.A normal HDD would do just fine, unless you really just want that little bit of extra speed you get with a SSD. HDD's are cheaper and have way more space.a 750GIG HDD would be a better hard drive, but overall a good computer
 

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So you are wanting a small form factor computer?
Here's a neat little computer from Lenovo called the Twist

http://www.lenovo.com/products/us/laptop/thinkpad/thinkpad-twist/
 
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NewHere_10

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Wow. That twist looks really neat. The one I saw at the Best Buy site was the tablet from Microsoft, so I thought that would be better, but this looks really good. Correct me but I think you can touch the screen on this as well, right? This looks great. Thank you!!
 

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Yes. The screen is a touch screen
Also, the one priced at $890 would be your best bet. It would have plenty of space since you can upgrade the hard drive from 320GB to 500GB for an extra $50 . Also has the fastest processor offered in that series with the most RAM. I don't think you would be dissapointed with it.