Help me pick a laptop

[AmyM]

This old Dell is almost 6 years old and even with upgrades, I'm down to less than 10% free space on the hard drive. It's time for something new don't you think?
I know I have a very long way to go but I need a laptop that's good enough to support a photography business (yeah, in my dreams I know but humor me LOL). Mac is outta the question, too expensive. I can't spend every last dime on the laptop when I also need lightroom and to save up for alien bees. My price range is preferably cheapest to 700 bucks (is that even possible?). I don't care much about the brand or the looks, I need lots of memory and good graphics. I'm currently looking at this but still a little freaked about a refurb. What do you think? Suggestions?
http://www.tigerdirect.com/applicat...31&sku=M975-150007&srkey=HP Pavilion dv6985se

or maybe this
http://www.dell.com/content/product...laptop_studio_15?c=us&cs=19&l=en&s=dhs&~ck=mn

 

[newfiemountiewife]

I have a Dell Inspiron that I got about a year ago. It's pink, 17 inch, 500 GB hard drive, 4 GB of RAM and I love it. It has Vista Ultimate on it, and Microsoft Office Suite for Business. I don't use it nearly to it's potential, since I didn't end up using it for work like I had expected to when I bought it. I am slowly moving over to it more often though. It was however, a lot more than $700 LOL. So I'm not sure what to tell you, I guess the more stuff you need (extra RAM, bigger HD, etc) the more the price will go up.

I am happy with my Dell, my first Dell was a real lemon, but I am loving this one. Good luck deciding!

 

[SamaraGugler]

I just picked up the Dell Studio 17 for $765 at Best Buy. I LOVE IT!!!!!


Ohh, I see that you have the Studio 15 already picked out. That's what I'd go with!

 

[Amy Carey]

I just got a toshiba satellite last week on QVC for around $700 and it came with a free $75 bag. It has 3 gig of ram and a 250 hard drive and it's a 17 inch monitor with good graphics. it's perfect for me for digi.