Thanks for the input so far.
I have up until today mainly been using laser rifles. Therefore my laser skills are well above my BLP skills. I'm currently at 57.5 hit and slowly crawling towards commando. If I were to switch to BLP, I'd be looking at roughly 4 months for the BLP skill to catch up, which would be one down side of it.
What I like about the Spirit though, is the DPS. DPS wise the downgrade won't be huge from my current weapon. But then there's the skills again... My long-term goal would be to be able to use an imk2.
The Ranked 1750 might work well as well; I intend to lower my game time so the difference in eco would not have a huge impact when counting absolute numbers.
But then again, I will probably be looking to sell either one of them within a few months. The spirit mk1 would probably be the easiest one to get rid off, but that would mean pretty much next to no increase in the laser sniper profession during that time.
Argh.