As for #2 - It looks like mwave.com has a pretty close match for $490:
https://www.mwave.com/mwave/SKUSearch.asp?scriteria=BE05801&pagetitle=Acer%20Aspire%20V3-731-4439%2017.3%20LED%20Notebook,%20Intel%20Pentiu#.XKM-KXxRWUk
perfect but out of stock. sad...