An ultrabook/ultrathin capable of playing the odd game - promised land arrives (AMD)

[Tellos Athenaios]

Exactly. Even better when you can get the machine through the education discount programme they have. Free shipping if you buy online, too. Just make sure to turn off/tone down all software options if there are any, also brings down the price significantly.

For me that pretty much sealed the deal when I got my 15inch Vaio S but then again I was specifically looking to trade graphics grunt for less need of a mains outlet nearby (I don't game on my laptop) so I picked up an entry level 15inch S for about €750, then bought a stick of 8GB low voltage RAM and a Samsung 830 256GB SDD and added them to the machine myself. With a Linux distro, it's a zippy little work machine now.