Recommend me a laptop!

Hey guys. My laptop is broken so I need a new laptop. Price range is around $400-550.

Recommendations?

 

im getting an hp labtop on march 14th

its 4 gb ram, 500 gb hard drive, i3 processor (2.4 ghz) with radeon HD 5470 graphics, 6 cell battery (5.5 hours of battery life), 15.6 inch screen, and windows 7 home 64-bit and system recovery dvd (added for only $20)

for a total of $568

it was presidential sale ($50 off + free shipping)


now starting price for it is $520 + u need to upgrade the ghz and graphics card for 70$ and i highly reccomend buying system rec disk.

so thats $618 instead of 568, but still decent price

 

actually, found a good labtop for $550

Dell inspiron 15R

Processor Intel® CoreTM i3 370M (2.4GHz/3MB cache)
Operating System Genuine Windows® 7 Home Premium 64-Bit
Display 15.6" High Definition (720p) LED Display with TrueLife™
Memory2 4GB2 Dual Channel DDR3 SDRAM at 1333MHz
Hard Drive 500GB3 hard drive (RPM) (5400RPM)
Optical Drive 8X CD/DVD Burner (Dual Layer DVD+/-R Drive) - w/ Roxio Burn 1.0
Warranty 1 Year Basic Service Plan
Weight 5.83 lbs.

http://www.dell.com/us/p/inspiron-15r-combo-mod/pd?oc=fndor20b&model_id=inspiron-15r-combo-mod




edit: found same dell labtop, but for $580 because disc upgraded to blu ray

http://www.dell.com/us/p/inspiron-15r-combo-mod/pd?oc=dndor21b&model_id=inspiron-15r-combo-mod

this one has same specs, but like i said upgraded to blu ray

 

If its Intel HD graphics its gonna be shit.

I would say buy the HP one with the 512 MB graphics card. Recovery disk is not needed recovery is done through the PC itself.

 

yeah but the hp one i mentioned is not on sale anymore, so its $68 dollars above his budget.

 

Oh gotcha, well that means he either has to U/G the card or hes gonna have to sit around with shitty Intel HD graphics.

And trust me Hahanerd, you will want to u/g itwhiel your buying it because you cant change the graphics card after.
Well you can but you'll have to completely tear the laptop apart and do it manually, and it could take hours.