What is the best kind of laptop for a 12 year old boy?

well the i5 are nice and fast for everything, but they run so fast that if you play a game, and I mean a simple game you can over heat the laptop so no games even if it says 16mb video card required it gets hot. My emachines e725 sales for about $450.00 I got it on sale for 299.00. and it runs your 32mb video game just fine. Amd quad core 1gb video card you or your child could play anything you'd like, it might be a little slower getting on the internet, but it a real heavy duty machine it sale for $529.00 for a desktop add two hundred more for laptops. Amd quad core carry a heavy load kinda like a 18 wheel semi, but it dose' beat a Corvette or i5 or a i7 or ferry, but if you got an i7 with a 1 gb of memory you spend $900-$1000 on a desk top or $1200 on a laptop. I hope I helped a little.