help finding cheap non gaming laptop!!?

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I'm looking for a laptop and i never play games:

Priorities are as follows:
1) Cheap -- definately under 1200, hopefully close to 1000 or less
2) Nice big screen -- i.e., 15 or 15.4 and greater than 1024x768 res
3) Build quality and reliabilty -- i really don't want a POS w/ some screen that looks wack and a keyboard that is jacked up. That would get old yeah??
4) Portable, but doesn't have to be really portable. I.e., 7 lbs is OK i think -- but i don't want a monster either like the Dell 9100 (not to diss the 9100 just too big for me).
5) Vid card doesn't matter at all to me .

In terms of battery life -- i guess i need at least 2 hours but really antyhing more than that and i'll be looking for a plug sooner or later anyways so not that important.

The main things i will do w/ this laptop -- run apps like visual studio, surf the web (wifi neccesary), run office, play videos/dvds/mp3s. Some photoshop/dreamweaver apps, email.

Hopefully i don't have my head in the clouds and most of these criteria can be met at my price range?? I guess i just don't know.

I noticed that almost all posts in this "Notebook General" area revolve around the pentium-M chips. So i guess that means that most people here really want to have good batter life? Because to me processing power probably takes priority over long battery life (to a degree). I.e., if i can get a Pentium 2.66 that only has 2 hours of life but can haul ass over a Pentium-M 1.5 and is a cheaper laptop that is prbly cool.

I've been watching the bargain sites for a while trying to find this baby -- but they seem to focus mainly on Dell, which i guess could be OK. But alot of people also say Dell quality is bad. And then i came here......

You guys blew me away w/ the # of ODM's that you check out -- so i need to learn more.

Ok enough ranting... any suggestions??

Thanks a bunch!!!!
w.