Laptop for Home Business $1500 or less

I need help finding a laptop for business use. I am looking to spend at most $1500 maximum.



1_What is your budget?

1500 or less

2_What is the size of the notebook that you are considering?

15, maybe 17 inch

3_What screen resolution do you want?

The higher the better

4_Do you need a portable or desktop replacement laptop?

in between I guess, it will be used for a small home business, and light image management/editing

5_How much battery life do you need?

3+ hours preferred

6_Do you want to play games with your laptop? If so then please list the games that you want to with the settings that you want for these games. (Low,Medium or High)?

for business use so no, maybe solitare

7_What other tasks do you want to do with your laptop? (Photo / Video editing, surfing the web, playing music, watching movies, Etc.)

photo editing, web surfing, movies

8_How much storage (H.D.D Capacity) do you need?

250GB +

9_If you are considering specific sites to buy from, please post the links to them.

http://www.newegg.com/

http://www.tigerdirect.com/

manufacturers websites (maybe even refurbed ones)

10_How long do you want to keep your laptop?

at least a 2-3 years

11_If you would like to mention some other things about purchasing your ideal laptop, post them.

sturdy build,

12_Please tell us about the brands that you prefer to buy from them and the brands that you don't like and explain the reasons.

Like

Dell
Lenevo Thinkpads? (Thinkpads used to be good don't know much about them now)

Don't know much about other brands

13_What country do you live in?

USA




Good processor (Intel C2Duo or better)

Good Battery life (3+ hours or just a higher capacity battery)

Dedicated video card

good screen resolution and at least 15" screen

2+ GB RAM

80GB+ hard drive



basically the laptop will be used for regular office work, internet surfing, managing photos, and maybe basic photo editing/enhancing

I don't know much about the different manufacturers, I was thinking Dell, Lenovo, HP, Sony, or Toshiba

Any help would be great