Meanwhile, if you're willing to go to DDR4, then e.g. the XPS15 is looking mighty nice: https://www.anandtech.com/show/12605/dells-8th-gen-alienware-laptops-and

Meanwhile, if you're willing to go to DDR4, then e.g. the XPS15 is looking mighty nice: https://www.anandtech.com/show/12605/dells-8th-gen-alienware-laptops-and-monitors/4 https://www.anandtech.com/show/12605/dells-8th-gen-alienware... "internals of the XPS 15 model 9570 have been upgraded: [...]a fully-unlocked six-core Core i9-8950 HK." "Since the new processors support DDR4-2666 memory, Dell will equip its new XPS 15 with 8 – 32 GB of DDR4-2666. " It even scores 4 lanes PCIe Thunderbolt, finally. (I'm looking at upgrading my original X1 Carbon with a new one in the next couple of years myself so will probably wait for the LPDDR4).