There's little benefit to screwing around with a RPi, unless that's your hobby and you want to mess around with the hardware, when you can go to Best Buy and ge

There's little benefit to screwing around with a RPi, unless that's your hobby and you want to mess around with the hardware, when you can go to Best Buy and get a real laptop for $300. By the time you've bought a keyboard, mouse, display, and storage for the Pi, you've spent just as much money.