Help me select a laptop

Hey

I am thinking about buying a laptop for my sister to use when she starts university in a few months, i want to get something fast.  Powerful Gpu's aren't needed as it wont be used for gaming, just itunes, web surfing and word.  My budget is between £400 and £500.  I own a gaming pc and am fairly computer literate but must confess I know very little about what to expect for my budget for a laptop, in a perfect world I would like a SSD and a quad core but i am guessing just from rudimentary surfing that this would be way out of my budget.  Anyways a few suggestions would be very welcome. 

Amazon have a

Acer Aspire V3-571 15.6-inch Laptop (Intel Core i7 3632QM, 8GB RAM, 750GB HDD, DVDSM DL, LAN, WLAN, BT, Webcam, Integrated Graphics, Windows 8)

for £500, the graphics card is prolly overkill but is this a pretty good laptop to be looking at for the price listed?