Need a good 700$ laptop

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1. What is your budget?
700$

2. What is the size of the notebook that you are considering?
Any

3. What screen resolution do you want?
1284 & 720+

4. Do you need a portable or desktop replacement laptop?
Desktop replacement

5. How much battery life do you need?
1.5 hours+

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)?
Source engine games and a few others. (TF2,CS:S,CoD:4,etc) So, medium-high
7. What other tasks do you want to do with your laptop? (Photo/Video editing, Etc.)
Sony Vegas editing
8. How much storage (Hard Drive capacity) do you need?
400+
9. If you are considering specific sites to buy from, please post their links.
Don't care.
10. How long do you want to keep your laptop?
Dunno.
11. What kind of Optical drive do you need? DVD ROM/Writer,Bluray ROM/Writer,Etc ?
DVD/CD and be able to burn CD's and DVD's
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.
NOT DELL OR IMB
13. What country do you live in?
Canada

14. Please tell us any additional information if needed.
15" and higher please
Also is this any good for what I want ? http://www.thesource.ca/estore/product.aspx?language=en-CA&product=2515267&category=Notebooks_English&catalog=Online&tab=2#more
 

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but is it better than the laptop I linked to...I can't tell. IDK if i5 is good or not