With the question posed that way, my top choice would be to wait for the 2018 MacBook Pros. Or if it works for you, an Air or simply a MacBook. But maybe you m

With the question posed that way, my top choice would be to wait for the 2018 MacBook Pros. Or if it works for you, an Air or simply a MacBook. But maybe you mean non-Mac alternatives. Purism is intriguing. I don't have personal experience with their stuff though. If I really didn't want a MBP, I'd probably get a MacBook or a Chromebook and then lean on a Linux desktop system for heavy duty number crunching type stuff. That's similar to what I do now except with an older MBP.