Thanks mate. Yeah I have an external DVD drive but dont want to have to carry it around while playing. I just brurnt an image using Nero which i can mount with Daemon tools so that saves me a little bit of money on poweriso but good idea.
The notebook only has 32gig of ram on board but its not like 688i came on a dvd so i can live with the loss of hd space.
What im most keen on is checking the touch screen capabilities. I think they will be cool with 688i.
Thanks for the ideas