Looking for a little laptop/ultrabook help for back to school... budget is $1000

Hello my [H]ard friends.
I am looking to purchase an ultrabook for back to school. This will be my first laptop and I will be using it for school and for work. I also will be traveling a lot to see my long distance GF, so I definitely want something that has an SSD for better battery life + better managing of any bumps on the trip. I also would greatly prefer something with some sort of dedicated graphics. I won't be doing much gaming on this laptop (I have my desktop for that) but if I want to fire up an old game (TF2, Quake Live, CS:Go, etc) I would prefer that it could play it, at least at a decent frame rate.

I am definitely having a difficult time trying to find something with dedicated graphics. This Lenovo: http://shop.lenovo.com/us/en/laptops/thinkpad/s-series/s431/#features looks like it would fit the bill, but I can't find any reviews on it at all.

Does anyone know of any good ultrabooks with dedicated graphics for around ~$1000? (Haswell processor greatly preferred, but it looks like these parts are difficult to find).

Thank you!

Truth be told: the likelihood of finding a true Ultrabook with a dedicated GPU at that price isn't very high. Lenovo makes good laptops, but as I'm sure you saw, it's not using Haswell.

It might be worth considering a MacBook Air ($1,049 for a 13-inch model with edu pricing, $949 for an 11-inch). No dedicated GPU, but it's using one of Intel's faster integrated graphics options. The battery also lasts forever -- 11-12 hours is actually realistic. Whether or not you can use the Air depends on the exact apps you need for school, although all the games you mentioned have native Mac versions.

Thanks for your reply. While I know Apple can have some pretty good laptops, my preferred workstation will have windows on it. Perhaps it's unrealistic to have my requirements in a $1000 laptop. The Lenovo looks like it could work, but I certainly like to read a review or two to learn about the quirks before purchasing.

I think I'll take a look around some of the manufacture's student deals and re-evaluate my options.

The age of Haswell is here and power sipping efficiency is the new cool... I agree with Aurelius that Ultrabooks with dedicated graphics are going to be about as common as the mythical money trees that my dad would so passionately reference.

There are gaming laptops out there, that have the juice, but, sadly, they aren't ultrabooks and they aren't $1000