Don't know why the thread was closed? We're not finished here yet. It might as well be the place where the announcement of what machine is purchased is made.

I'm going through the suggested machines and companies - so far I've tracked down specs for Acer, Toshiba, Lenovo, they each have their own little twist on what is offered. Some have larger screens, others have some solid state drives or cache to speed things up considerably. WiFi only on some, WiFi, ethernet and bluetooth on others.

More work is needed on this, but I have other things to do also, so I'll get back to the specs again this evening.

SRS