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Originally Posted by Icey Unfortunately I'm not technically a student as I work full time. I'm studying for chartered accountancy and will be using the laptop for all my work and also for home computing, internet etc etc. At the moment I use my work or my parents PC which has limitations of either time spent at the office or having to go over to my parents house several times a week which eats into my study time.
My dad bought their current PC which is a DELL and he wants to get me a DELL laptop - obviously fine by me as I'm over the moon that they want to help me out.
What I don't know about is all the stuff about RAM, Ghz, processors, Mhz etc etc. Haven't got a clue 
What are the bog standard things that I should be looking at?
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Ignore the hobbit
I wouldnt worry about XP if you are going for a 2nd hand laptop - the link I gave before will provide you with a laptop for £200 that includes windows 98 and ms office which is probably the bulk of what you need. The biggest slowdown with any PC is caused by installing lots of programs you don't need and spyware you install by accident.
Tips: use firefox or opera as a web browser and dont use Outlook express for email. Then install ad-aware, AVG anti-virus and Zone Alarm.
A cpu faster than 300mhz i would say is perfectly usable for office/study use. If you can get at least 256mb of memory, all the better. If you want to play modern games, you'd find you would have to spend about £1000 for a laptop with a decent gfx card built in, in which case, get a desktop for half the price (a mini case in fact). So dont spend money just for the sake of it.