he said he didnt want a fancy one I was thinking of the travelmate series I have one from 3 years ago and although it only has 512mb of ram and 40gb harddrive (200gb external which now has 300mb left lol) it is still a great laptop and Ive had no problems with it even when ive pushed it to the edge by getting it upto 75 celcius and had 1mb of hdd space or both windows xp pro and linux it still is good and healthy.