Just realized Disqus ate the comment I left awhile ago w/ one of the laptops I thought looked good. Anyway - did you look at Lenovo's site? The Ideapads seem like a pretty good value to me. I got a Lenovo a couple years ago that I liked, other than that I got a 17" and it's too big to carry around. (I swear I…

Hmm, that's definitely a nice, new CPU, but other than that it seems sort of expensive for what you get. 512GB SSD is great, 16GB Ram is good (though single instead of dual-channel is weird). But it's only 1080p not 4K, no external GPU (I know I said they were louder, but seems they've gotten better about that for…