An $800 budget is totally reasonable.
Will he be storing a lot of files on the laptop. If he's not, I'd go with a laptop with a solid state hard drive (SDD) and at least 8gb of ram. Also try to find a processor that is less than 2 years old.
If he is storing lots of files, you might want to also get a computer with both a SDD and a regular hard drive. Put the system files on the SDD and the storage onto the standard hard drive.
Costco and Visions will both likely have good options. Lenovo will also commonly have pretty good sales on their website.
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