Hi,

>I'm thinking about buying a new laptop.
>
>Looking at the dell site and the hard drive selection only goes up to 100G.That seems very small.

Huh? Smallest available for a Inspriron 9400 is 160Gb with a 200Gb available.
It can be worth looking on Ebay for one of these - apart from the regular dealers Dell themselves sometimes auction new machines with superficial scratch marks or dings.
Best,
Viv