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I have narrowed my search down to two computers"
Dell Inspiron
PROCESSOR: Intel® Core™ Duo T2250 (1.73GHz, 2MB L2 Cache, 533 MHzFSB)
OPERATING SYSTEM Vista™ Home Premium with 1GB of memory
LCD PANEL17 inch UltraSharp™ Wide Screen UXGA Display with TrueLife
MEMORY 2GB Shared Dual Channel DDR2 SDRAM at 533MHz
HARD DRIVE 80GB 5400RPM SATA Hard Drive
OPTICAL DRIVE8x CD/DVD burner (DVD+/-RW) double-layer DVD+R write capability
VIDEO CARD 256MB NVIDIA® GeForce™ Go 7900 GS
SOUND OPTIONS Integrated Audio

and HP:
AMD Turion(TM) 64 X2 Dual-Core TL-50(1.6GHz/512KB)
Windows Vista Home Premium
17.0" WXGA+ Ultra BrightView Widescreen (1440x900)
256MB NVIDIA(R) GeForce(R) Go 7600
1024MB DDR2 System Memory
100GB 7200RPM SATA Hard Drive
DVD/RX blah blah blah.

they are both within $100 oof each other. critiques or suggestions would be welcome or any other comps which are in the same price range $1500-$1600, and might offer more. Thanks!!