Chipsters.

Or "someone who likes the things I like but not for the same reason that I do", or "someone who likes the things I like but dresses better than me"

The only meaning of that word at this point is "someone who doesn't like the things I like"

blue is so 2016. well done.

What about blue?

I'm so happy I got Famitracker!  It sounds beautiful!

Remember: buy a white one. If you buy a black or silver one everybody will think you know nothing or use Ubuntu. WHITE.

Thanks for you insight,  yoyz2k!

Well tomorrow's payday and I can be impatient so I'm just going to swing by Best Buy and pick one up after work.

It sounds like it should be adequate for my purposes,  but down the road I may decide to upgrade to something better.

God this place sucks.

If it's for development purpose you should get a bigger laptop.
If it's for music tracker small one are fine.
2GB of ram is small for laptop, but definitely it will only be a problem if you do Internet, dev, tracker at the same time. 4GB is better.
32GB of ssd is fast but really small, not a problem if you already have a USB hard drive.
You don't need a speedy drive for what you plan to do.

With what you have said, I should go and buy a two years old 14 inch dell/lenovo pentium laptop with 4G of ram with a large hard drive 250GB. Double check it with five YouTube stream to see if it is noisy and healthy after five minute. And if it's okay on this side you will have a laptop which will have the same CPU power with a better keyboard, more disk, more ram.

"Windows 8 is so unhipster its now mega hipster" Guy who doesnt understand what hipster means.

Basically you want to turn all the metro/modern UI junk off and put the start menu back. Aside from that it has better performance than Windows 7 and lots of slick features that Windows 7 wishes it has. Superior is not debatable in this instance.

What problems does it have, aside from the metro UI and lack of start menu (both of which can be solved in a couple minutes)? I've not had any issues with Windows 8 aside from the annoying driver signing stuff that Windows Vista and 7 both also have.

It's free if you register within the first year, just to clarify. You won't be limited to using it for only one year.

It's only free for the first year.

I don't think that really matters since windows 10 will be free and is coming out rather soon.

As a full time user of Windows 8, I suggest you avoid it.  There are some neat features, but there are a good amount of problems and Windows 7 is high perfect out of the box.  Either way, you should update to Win10 when it's released.