17" laptop for the parents.

[rawfuls]

Honestly anything, if you just want basic web browsing and whatnot, just search by size and go wild.

It's gonna be real hard to find a Windows 7 computer from the factory, so I'd suggest you pounce on a Win7 refurb now if you can.

Otherwise, it will be some tinkering for you to downgrade from Windows 8 to Windows 7.

You'd just have to hop into the BIOS, change Safe Boot off, enable legacy AHCI mode and it will then be able to install Windows 7 from there.