Looking for a powerful rig under 1k

1. What is your budget?
1,000 usd

2. What is the size of the notebook that you are considering?
13-17 inch, dosent matter

3. What screen resolution do you want?
Full HD preferred
4. Do you need a portable or desktop replacement laptop?
I do not mind lugging a desktop replacment around

5. How much battery life do you need?
3-4 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)? Yes, I would like to play cod3, skyrim, bf3

7. What other tasks do you want to do with your laptop? (Photo/Video editing, Etc.)
Photo, Video, and audio editing, as well as class work for school

8. How much storage (Hard Drive capacity) do you need?
640gb

9. If you are considering specific sites to buy from, please post their links.
xoticpc.com, open to other suggestions

10. How long do you want to keep your laptop?
2-3 years

11. What kind of Optical drive do you need? DVD ROM/Writer,Bluray ROM/Writer,Etc ?
Do not need an optical drive

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.
Dont Like Toshiba or gateway, they just feel cheap

13. What country do you live in?
United states

14. Please tell us any additional information if needed.
Would like to be able to hook the computer up to my 2 external monitors (23 inchers), would also perfer a 2nd generation I7 as the cpu.