Laptop for light gaming and college

Total budget and country of purchase: US, $1000

Do you prefer a 2 in 1 form factor, good battery life or best specifications for the money? Pick or include any that apply. best specifications

How important is weight and thinness to you? N/A

Which OS do you require? Windows, Mac, Chrome OS, Linux. Windows

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

Are you doing any CAD/video editing/photo editing/gaming? List which programs/games you desire to run. gaming and any programs needed for computer science

If you're gaming, do you have certain games you want to play? At what settings and FPS do you want? decent fps and good settings

Any specific requirements such as good keyboard, reliable build quality, touch-screen, finger-print reader, optical drive or good input devices (keyboard/touchpad)? reliable build quality

Leave any finishing thoughts here that you may feel are necessary and beneficial to the discussion. I have looked at two laptops so far, the Dell Inspiron 7567 and the Acer Aspire VX 15. Looking for other laptops or which laptop is the better of these two.