Inexpensive Laptop for my son

[Chaerophon]

Get more money. You aren't getting a good notebook that will have everything he's going to need for college at $750. Maybe finance a computer?
None of our offers will deliver what you need. $750 will buy a basic bare-bones system. Like an inspiron 1200 or 2200. No dedicated video, no microsoft office, no security software, and not the largest amount of power.

Unless Alram's son is going into comuputing science, I think that most people here are going to call BS on that one. As we speak, I'm typing on the dell laptop that I've had for the last two years of my college experience. PII 266, 128 Megs RAM, Wireless 56k, Office 2000, EZ Trust Firewall and Anti-Virus, Stopzilla, AdAware, Spybot, and Firefox. Cripes, my brother is on only a slightly faster computer, and he's successfully running all of his AutoCAD stuff for an architecture degree.

I don't get viruses, I do get e-mail and google. I get A's. This cost... just over 300 bucks Canadian at the time (two and a half years ago). I think that a budget of 750 American will do Alram just fine.