As I have already bought a laptop for my daughter from ACER E1-571 and she is very happy with this, the choice for another laptop from Acer for my son for Christmas was not a question. Entscheident was built i 5 Processor and memory capacity, and the design and build quality. The laptop comes with Linux, you have about 60, again - EUR for a Windows 7 update applying program so that you can work with it sensibly.