Laptop for adobe illustrator and photoshop

We are getting a new laptop for my daughter and a subscription to the Adobe Creative Cloud. She is interested in graphic design and mostly uses photoshop and illustrator. She has already sold several ebook covers and some other design projects. We are looking at laptops with an i7 processor and a SATA drive. We are unsure where to put our money - faster processor, more RAM, SATA vs optical drive, dedicated graphics card - for optimum performance. What do we really need? dedicated graphics cards seem to cost about $200-300 more. My IT friend says the SATA drive will make the biggest difference in speed....
HELP!!!
Here is two we are looking at . Would these perform well for creative cloud and last several years? Which would be better? Thanks for your advice.
Dell Inspiron 15 5000 Series Touchscreen Laptop | Intel Core i7 | Backlit Keyboard
8GB DDR3L 1600MHz RA
Intel Core i7-4510U Processor at 2.0GHz
8GB DDR3L 1600MHz RA
1TB 5400RPM SATA Hard Drive
Microsoft® Windows 8.1 (64-bit)
15.6" Touchscreen Truelife HD LED Backlit (1366 x 768) Display
Integrated Graphics
HP ENVY 15t Touchscreen Laptop | Intel Core i7
4th generation Intel® Core™ i7-4710HQ Processor (2.5GHz)
16GB DDR3 System Memory (2 Dimm)
1TB 5400 rpm Hard Drive
SuperMulti DVD Burner
Microsoft® Windows 8.1 (64-bit)
802.11b/g/n WLAN
HP TrueVision HD Webcam with Integrated Digital Microphone
15.6-inch diagonal Touchscreen HD LED-backlit Display (1366x768)
Intel HD Graphics 4600

What is you actual budget?
If you are wanting a machine that is going to run well for a number of years and keep up with the ever developing Adobe Creative Cloud then I would suggest investing in something that has a good amount of RAM (8GB RAM recommended), a good graphics card (1GB VRAM recommended), a good processor and plenty of hard disk space.
Here is the specifications for Photoshop and Illustrator:
System requirements | Photoshop
System requirements | Illustrator
My suggestion would be something like this Dell Precision M3800 — 15" Mobile Workstation | Dell UK
Good luck.

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Best regards
Ulf

I have similar setup to yours.
From my point of view you need more RAM. I have 16GB. Than you will need to change in preferences to adjust memory used by PS and Illustrator. Maybe take a look at virtual memory in Windows and disable aero effects.
Disk. It is better to have one disk for system (eg.SSD) and one for documents. But don't buy something like WD Green series that is intended for backup.
Graphics. It is not a major player I think for your tasks, but OpenGl can speed up rendering in Photoshop and Illustrator.
When exporting AI with layers to PSD it will always show "out of memory" unless you turn off anti aliasing.
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houseofrest,
According to this page, you can use it for CC:
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wtt.math,
Please install the latest adobe application manager and try applying the available updates again.
Here is the link to download adobe application manager(AAM):
http://www.adobe.com/support/downloads/detail.jsp?ftpID=4773
Download AAM from the above link and install it.
Launch Updates again and try applying them.
-Pragya

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