Need help buying a editing laptop!

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I am not sure if this is the correct place to post this. Anyways! What I needed help with is, I will be starting college soon and I am going into a video production style of program (there are other things included in there, web design, etc.). I also make YouTube videos on the side as a hobby and wanted to continue doing it while in school. So what I need is a video editing laptop, to do work on whenever I have time between classes. I know what you need for video editing, lots of RAM, good CPU, etc. All these things come at a great cost and that is where my problem is... I don't want to spend over $1000 on a laptop just to edit simple videos. I also would like a laptop with an ssd, I can buy an external hdd to transfer things between it and my PC at home, also I would like it not to be too big, if it is big but has a good price, I don't mind. I know plenty of people will tell me to go Apple but I have never used their products and I'm not really a huge fan of it.

 

Thank you for the help!

 

Edit: My program will involve me working with all sorts of editing programs and operating systems. So I will take Apple suggestions as well. Also I live in Canada so most prices will be higher than the states and harder to find.

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Take a look at this its < $1000 has an i7 and a 1 TB HDD

http://www.amazon.com/Vivobook-V551LB-DB71T-15-6-Inch-Touchscreen-Laptop/dp/B00COQGJSK/ref=sr_1_3?ie=UTF8&qid=1408326863&sr=8-3&keywords=asus+n56vz

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Thanks for the suggestion! It seems like a very solid laptop. I did forget to mention one thing, I live in Canada and here it's $1200 from amazon. I thought of something though. In my class I will have to use Apple products and their editing softwares and such, so I may consider picking up an Apple product, if you can think of any good ones, please let me know!

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Apple is going to mean less hardware per dollar unfortunately. you budget is going to leave you with an option like this ( not bad but not quite the specs as the last laptop)

 

http://www.bestbuy.ca/en-CA/product/apple-apple-macbook-pro-13-3-3rd-gen-intel-core-i5-2-5ghz-laptop-english-md101ll-a/10178817.aspx?path=e29bca47ba77d2a86974a11e151e7321en02

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If you are feeling adventitious maybe you might consider a hackntosh

http://www.macbreaker.com/2014/04/the-best-hackintosh-laptops-of-2013-2014.html

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I have no problem turning my PC into a hackntosh but a laptop seems like too much work lol. That MacBook Pro seems pretty good. It doesn't have an i7 but my own PC doesn't have one and I still edit videos extremely quickly. I'm not picky when it comes to i5s and i7s. I might just pick this one up unless something with similar specs comes along and is cheaper. Anyways, thank you so much for your help, I may even look for a used one since this won't be my main system and just something for a hobby.

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No problem! always glad to help. Good luck with your new computer and school.