One of my grand sons needs a laptop for college work and interwebs.
No gaming required.
What's the current best Chromebook for the lad on a budget?
Maybe I'm a bit late to this party, but there is a large secondhand market in ex-lease Thinkpads, which are fantastic value for money if you're after a laptop on a budget. Lenovo is the dominant player in the corporate leasing market, so ex-lease Thinkpads come up through the secondary market by the truckload, and quite cheaply due to the sheer volumes - typically about 20-30% of the price of a new machine.
X and T series machines are the mainstay of this market, and they are good quality kit - magnesium and fibreglass chassis, good capacitors, parts with guaranteed supply so they're a stable platform, and so forth. I'm typing this on a secondhand T430 that I bought a few years ago for £250.
There's good support available off the interwebs - videos, forums and other resources on how to take them apart and do various repairs and upgrades, plus parts are readily identified and purchased by part number, again through the secondary market. If you don't want to do the repairs or upgrades yourself the repair guy at your FLCS can look up exactly the same videos and do if for you. As they're cheap secondhand, repairs costs max out at the cost of a replacement machine. In practice, they're pretty rugged anyway. Chances are you won't need to do anything to them, and with a bit of TLC you might get 5 or 10 years from one.
My advice to anyone wanting a PC on a budget is pretty much always to at least consider this option. If you're not too proud to buy secondhand, these machines are far better quality than the rubbish you'll get from a high-street shop like PC World. Take a look at an X230-X250 or a T430-T450 on Ebay.