If your student is heading to college, contact the university before you buy anything. The university may have special deals on PCs, it may have a PC that all students are required to purchase or it may have suggested configurations.
If money is tight, consider a budget laptop from a first-rate company like Dell or HP and load it with RAM after you buy it.
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Also keep in mind that software such as Microsoft Office is usually sold to students for just a few dollars after they enroll, so you can often save hundreds of dollars by sending them to school without that software and telling them to buy a copy at the bookstore. — SHNS
