College Laptop

In the next month I will be graduating and I need to purchase a laptop for college. At the beginning of this year I built my own desktop that put me out around $1700. I only want to pay $600-650 for this laptop. The school I will be going to gets a slight discount from Lenovo but I can buy any brand of laptop. I will be using it for media as well as school work. There will be some applications on there for business as well.

What do you guys recommend?

Edit:


1_What is your budget?
$600-650

2_What is the size of the notebook that you are considering?
Around 15"

3_What screen resolution do you want?
Doesn't Matter

4_Do you need a portable or desktop replacement laptop?
Portable/Semi-Portable

5_How much battery life do you need?
Around 3 hours would be nice

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)?
The only game if any that I would be playing would be soldier of fortune 2 gold which is an extremely old game.

7_What other tasks do you want to do with your laptop? (Photo / Video editing, surfing the web, playing music, watching movies, Etc.)
Surfing the web
Playing a lot of music
Watching some video clips
Run business applications

8_How much storage (H.D.D Capacity) do you need?
Around 160GB should be plenty

9_If you are considering specific sites to buy from, please post the links to them.
No specific...newegg is where I usually shop but through the college I'll be going to I can get discounted Lenovo laptops.

10_How long do you want to keep your laptop?
For at least 4-5 years.

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

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.
No Preference

13_What country do you live in?
United States

I had most of the information in the original post...but anyways, it's been edited now. Any help?