If there is no GPU, why does it weigh this much?  My kid has a 2 year old, 15.6",  Lenovo piece of crap that weighs less and cost half as much.

If LG can do a 17" version that only weighs 1.3 kg, and charge less for it, I'm going to have to call this intel NUC a failure.

Its design resembles the MacBook Pro 16 so I think it is only fair that you should quantify sound quality on both laptops and base your overall "rating" of this laptop solely on their disparity.

Jokes aside, I'm not spending $1,500 on a flagship laptop that has speakers sounding worse than $30 wireless speakers.

Although I am not of a fan of such a keyboard and touchpad, this laptop does seem to have set a new benchmark for Tiger Lake performance. Other OEMs should make sure the cooling and sustained performance under load is as good as this.

So why should I look elsewhere if I want to run Linux? Is something preventing me from installing ubuntu on it? Lack of drivers for example?

This laptop is better than many premium lines by some of the big names.

Good job!

The model reminds me of old Elitebook 9480M, but bigger. Damn, I loved that laptop. I wish HP would release another laptop just like that. Replaceable battery, dual socket ram, 2.5" HDD with 2242 m2, full port... Good display, and nice (not the best though, but still very good) keyboard. No worthy successor after 9480m.

More ports than the XPS, which would be very welcome, but the lack of 16:10 display is unacceptable. And as bela said, a GPU option is missing.

Thanks for reviewing it.

I was waiting for this device and I still like it, but the unwanted touch screen, the lack of 16:10 ratio and most importantly, the dedicated GPU. If they were able to put in a gtx 1650 they would've bought me.

Anyway, that's just my opinion. I still think they did a good job with this one.