lenovo legions are nice and cheap. beware, they're cheap for a reason. bloatware, a shitty bios, and interference with nvidia cards. i had to rollback on my gpu driver for my computer to stop crashing 3 times a fay
I don't think you need a cheap laptop, just need something that will be better than cheap one and cheaper than best one --- Post updated --- Like my Dell laptop
I have a Lenovo Y510p from 2013 that's still on it's original battery. Never had any issues with it and it was my school laptop all through college. Rocking that GT750M and I7-4700MQ. Asus does make decent stuff from what I've seen. I work on Dells all day long and wouldn't recommend any of the cheaper models. I see SO many battery replacements, it's not even funny.