Laptop for School and Work

Hi, my name is Chris and I am a current student at Bethel University. For those of you who know me, I'm dilligent with my technical skills, doubling as a freelance web designer on the side to pay for my education. Recently, my laptop's hard drive failed, leaving me unable to fulfill most of my responsibilities to my clients. After paying off some of my loans, this could not have come at a worse time. Please help me fund a new computer which will be used to continue helping me pay off my college education and finish my school projects. I'm not looking to buy anything fancy, just something that can run the basics for creating web graphics and writing my final lesson plans for student teaching.