1.1k maximum for school, light gaming

Total budget and country of purchase: -1.1k US dollars, USA

• Do you prefer a 2 in 1 form factor, good battery life or best specifications to your requirements for the money? Pick or include any that apply. Dont care about battery, dont care about 2 in 1. Needs to run multiple VMs. Play all games medium to high graphics.

• How important is weight to you? -not very

• Which OS do you require? Windows, Linux, Mac. Windows, will be running virtual machines

• Do you have a preferred screen size? If indifferent, put N/A. eh

• Are you doing any CAD/video editing/photo editing/gaming? List which programs/games you desire to run. If you have no requirements, put N/A. gaming and running virtual machines. Not planning on doing VR

• If you're gaming (leave blank if you put N/A above...), do you have certain games you want to play? At what settings and FPS do you want? Rust, battlefield 1, ARK, GTA 5 probably. I dunno, whatever strikes my fancy.

• Any specific requirements such as good keyboard, reliable business grade build quality, touch-screen, finger-print reader, optical drive or good input devices (keyboard/touchpad)? no need for an optical drive. Needs rj-45 with at least 1Gbps ethernet

• Leave any finishing thoughts here that you may feel are necessary and beneficial to the discussion. Im looking at some refurbished Acer predators, the Acer vx 15 and Asus rogs that have 1050/tis. I kind of have my mind made up, but I would like if anyone else out there has some input.