EDIT: oops. I just noticed your price range. The X1 Carbon doesn't fit with that. I would strongly recommend the last generation Lenovo X1 Carbon, but I woul

EDIT: oops. I just noticed your price range. The X1 Carbon doesn't fit with that. I would strongly recommend the last generation Lenovo X1 Carbon, but I would strongly recommend against the current X1 Carbon for a few reasons: - They merged the trackpoint's buttons into the trackpad's and now it's very difficult find the middle chord or to select text using the trackpoint. - They merged the function keys with the utility keys (e.g. volume control) into a single, dynamic row, so closing a window (Alt-F4) often requires you to toggle from utility to function key. If this sounds confusing and useless, it is. - Worst, because of the doubled-up row (fn, utility), Esc and ~ wound up overlaid. So they moved the ~ next to the LOWER RIGHT Alt key. I hit Esc every time I try to reference my home directory... Other than that, it's a lovely laptop. Oh and don't get a HighDPI display unless you want to deal with funky application layout issues...