If you need light weight machine than will get (thermal or artificially) throttled(slow), few ports. Like MacBook, Dell XPS, MS Surface. Are you fine with more

If you need light weight machine than will get (thermal or artificially) throttled(slow), few ports. Like MacBook, Dell XPS, MS Surface. Are you fine with more heavy weight option? If you need ports than 2015 is not for you I guess, better to have Thunderbolt 3 or USB 3.2 gen 2 Type-C, so may be starting from 2017 I guess. And you forget to mentioned price range. I have bought cheap `Dell Inspiron 15 7577`: - 1000 USD - 2.6 KG - official Ubuntu Linux - 2x8GB DDR4 - 1 NVMe and 1 SATA - i7-7700 - GPU NV 1050 Ti - mid range IPS 1920 display There is more pricey with NV 1060 and high end retina display. It is possible to wait for summer to see next gen laptop models on i7-8650U(20W) and i7-8700HQ(6 core, 45 W).