Title says it all, budget is £700/$900 and should be a good day to day worker with maybe some gaming capability, just want to know the best that my money can buy as i am clueless. Thanks in advance.

I'm guessing from "pounds" that your in the UK. I've heard good things about Entroware and they seem to be in your price range: https://www.entroware.com/store/

As I'm not in the UK I have no direct experience with them.

Many of the members of my LUG prefer Lenovo, but they stay away from the low-end ones.

Welcome to LQ.

Didn't come with linux, and required some workarounds due to current bios limitations (hardware enumeration from bios to OS), but I'm a HUGE fan of my Dell Inspiron 7375 2-in-1.

Thanks for the responses and the welcome guys, i will take a look into entroware. Any further suggestions would be more than welcome, have a good one.

A little over your budget but the System76 Galago pro is nice. https://system76.com/laptops/galago

In the uk would be prefferable but thanks for the input

Depends on how you define gaming. My Pinebook can play moon-buggy just fine. A $99 laptop with a 1080p IPS display (+$33 shipping). Lots of options, you could take a bootable USB to a retail store and give a few systems there a try if they let you. One way to try before you buy. Or find a used store if you don't need bleeding edge specs. Goodwill has a tech store in my area. And TOPS is a used office equipment store that sells used thinkpads for $500-ish in my area. Most times I just go to office depot and buy the $400-ish on SALE laptop (it's always on sale / except weekends). It'll ring up at the non-sale price, so be sure to point at the big SALE sign right by the cash registers, or redirect them to their own website for the "price match". I don't know what the EURO equivalent of those stores are, but you're likely to have something like that.

Personally, with a $900 budget I'd be looking at either:

1. A shiny new Dell XPS 13 Developer Edition (comes with Ubuntu linux preinstalled)
or
2. A refurbished Precision M3530 from the Dell Outlet (comes with Windows, but Ubuntu-certified) with NVidia Quadro GPU for gaming

@Gatekeeper: There's zillions of laptops; You set your processor, video, and other requirements. Laptops are NOT upgrade-able, except for disk, & ram.

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And even sometimes then it's not upgradable (ie - I have a Lenovo Yoga 3 Pro, the memory is soldered to the board, so can't upgrade past the 8 GB it came with). Always something to be aware of when buying.

About the only spec I require for laptops > $100 is USB3 or better. Most other needs (like disks) can be met on the USB port beyond that. Lots of RAM helps too if only to RAMDISK things for fastest speeds. Back when USB sticks were slow, I could set the $HOME/.mozilla on a RAMDISK and youtube wouldn't buffer waiting on the stick to write browser cache out.