Looking for a decent teacher's laptop

1. What is your budget?
$500-$700

2. What is the size of the notebook that you are considering?
14" plus or minus an inch. Nothing huge like a gaming laptop, but not a netbook either.

3. What screen resolution do you want?
1024x768. Willing to go higher if the price is reasonable

4. Do you need a portable or desktop replacement laptop?
Portable is fine. It will be a primary computer, so at least 500 gb of storage

5. How much battery life do you need?
6-8h

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)?
Not really a gaming laptop.

7. What other tasks do you want to do with your laptop? (Photo/Video editing, Etc.)
Smart board applications and word processing basically.

8. How much storage (Hard Drive capacity) do you need?
500+ and 7200 rpm

9. If you are considering specific sites to buy from, please post their links.
http://www.newegg.ca/
http://www.directcanada.com/category/?minorcatid=1470&p...

10. How long do you want to keep your laptop?
I'd like it to last more than 4 years. Springing for a decent ivy bridge is not out of the question if it gives the laptop lasting power.

11. What kind of Optical drive do you need? DVD ROM/Writer,Bluray ROM/Writer,Etc ?
DVD is fine

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.
I've always been an Intel person. I'm open to any brand as long as it is of good quality and reasonable price.

13. What country do you live in?
Canada

14. Please tell us any additional information if needed.
That's about it. It's really just for day-to-day web surfing and word processing. I would like it to have reasonable loading times and not feel "sluggish" like my old laptop.

Thank you very much for taking the time to read this! Any recommendations will be greatly appreciated