I've had a hand in 5 or 6 laptop purchases over the last few years.
Mantras have been ( with some advice from the cellar and other places)
-go low, unless you need gaming or some other high eprformance application, buy the cheapest laptop that's good enough they don't last more than a few years anyway
-lowest priced brands that are not cheap crap are Dell and HP. generally HP are cheaper unless you snag a deal. Nearly all the laptops have been HP's, I think Monsters is a Dell because she wanted it yestreday and there was a good deal at Best Buy.
I think the last two were sub $500, and plenty decent.
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