What notebook should I buy?

This computer is for my 9 year old son who needs it for school. I thought it would be nice to get him a "Cheap" notebook for $9,574. He wanted a VooDoo but I don't have 20K + on hand. Is this a good entry level notebook?

Intel庐 Core鈩?2 Extreme X7900 (2.8GHz/800Mhz FSB, 4MB Cache)

Genuine Windows Vista庐 Ultimate Edition

4GB Shared Dual Channel DDR2 SDRAM at 667MHz

RAID Performance: 128GB (2x64GB) Solid State Drive

Blu-ray / DVD / CD Burner (Blu-ray Disc Drive)

NVIDIA庐 SLI鈩?Dual GeForce庐 8800M GTX with 1GB GDDR3 Memory

Intel庐 PRO/Wireless 4965 a/g/n Mini Card

Sprint built-in cellular mobile broadband (EVDO Rev A)

Built-in Bluetooth capability (2.0 EDR)

ExpressCard Sound Blaster X-Fi庐 Xtreme Audio Sound Card

WARRANTY AND SERVICE

4Yr In-Home Service, Parts + Labor- Next Day, LoJack Theft Protection to 4Yr Warr.,

Dell On Call 30 Day Unlimited+12 mos, 5 incidents. Coverage All School Year, and In-Home System Setup with Data Transfer

What notebook should I buy?software

okay 9,574 is way too much for any notebook.....damn, i pay that for my freakin car

What notebook should I buy?vincent

That is over kill to the maximum. Get a average system at any major retailer from HP, Compaq, Acer or Gateway. That way when he drops and breaks it the loss will not be as painful. When he gets to his teen years and wnats to waste his time doing games instead of studying, and wants to steal copyrighted music and video, then spend the big money to assist him.
geez...9 year olds now a days! anyway yeah 9k is not cheap, unless you can be frivolous and waste money on an "entry" level notebook. just go to best buy and get suckered into buying a notebook, or...get a mac. i heard those work pretty well.
Holy **** are you joking? I hope so. That computer is insanely powerful for a notebook. That would be considered a very hard core gaming notebook, freaking very hardcore.

If you spend over 800 bucks on a notebook for your 9 year old son your crazy. Why the hell does a 9 year old need a computer for school. Unless he is in some crazy snotty private school, in that case buy him the computer you describe there, it will make the other kids jealous. ^_^
Thats i a little high, i got a refurbished notebook that works great for $2,400.
For school your son would be looking at a MacBook for $1099 which will be ideal for everything he is going to do.

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