I'm very happy with my Acer Aspire Nitro 5. It was cheap. And it looks cheap. It's mostly plastic. And it'll slightly bend if you carry it on one edge. Plus I t

I'm very happy with my Acer Aspire Nitro 5. It was cheap. And it looks cheap. It's mostly plastic. And it'll slightly bend if you carry it on one edge. Plus I took it apart once to upgrade the internal SSD. But it has survived 3 years of frequent travel including 10+ international flights. I run Pop!OS on it so that it's all encrypted in case I ever lose it. And a Syncthing daemon in the background to securely backup all of its data.