Im looking for a laptop

[Starbrite]

I'm looking to buy my son a new laptop for Christmas. Unfortunately, we were out of town over Thanksgiving so I wasnt able to take advantage of any Black Friday specials. Also, I know nothing about laptops!!

Whatever we get, we will need to be able to add Microsoft Office since its a requirement in school. Otherwise, it'll just be for your basic high school kid...surfing the internet, music, etc. So I dont think we have any special requests.


Has anyone seen a half-decent laptop out there, reasonably priced (Maybe the $400-$450 range?) that you would recommend?

 

[wiigirl]

I have this one and love it....

ASUS i5 Laptop

Its $499 on Amazon, but it is seriously the best laptop I ever owned. Plus it has the Intel i5 CPU which I am told is good. You can get the same laptop with the Intel i3 processor that should fit within your budget....


Good luck!

 

[marycaym]

http://www.walmart.com/ip/HP-Charco...essor-and-Windows-8-Operating-System/21150613

HP at walmart for 325.00, bought 2 for xmas gifts.

 

[timmac]

When looking for a decent price, I'm always very partial to geeks, and have typically been happy with Dell over the years:
http://www.geeks.com/details.asp?invtid=BLK-LATITUDE-E5420-13R&cat=NBB

I'm not a fan of many of the new AMD processors, that are great for value, but fall really short on performance; personally, I wouldn't buy the HP for that reason, but to each their own.

The Asus mentioned by PP looks pretty nice, too.