They’re willing to budge in just one area: screen size. It doesn’t matter if it’s 13, 15 or17 inches. Additionally, they’re not loyal to any brands, which gives us more to choose from. But with all of my research, I was hard-pressed to find an exact match. Here are some suggestions that hopefully help our reader, even if they’ll have to compromise. At just $580, this is even cheaper than our reader’s first budget. It’s not entirely metal (the lid is plastic), but you get a 15.6-inch 1080p display, a 7th-Gen Core i5 CPU and a 256GB SSD (less than the 1TB JobsforFun asked for). For $669, you can bump it up to a Core i7. It has a DVD drive, which JobsforFun was nonplussed about, but it also boasts an Nvidia GeForce 940MX GPU. That won’t handle Destiny 2, but it will work for Stardew Valley. Oh, and the Aspire lasts almost 11 hours on a charge.
