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Thin laptop up to 2000$

Hello. Looking for a thin laptop that is gonna be carried to places a lot without me having power sockets nearby.
Price wise 1000$ would be nice, but i'm up for spending till 1500$ (or even 2000$ if it's reasonably better than other choices)
For some personal reasons, ordering from other country is a bit out of questions for me and i would like to be able fix it up fast if something would happen without sending it away for a long journey from which it may or may not return, so i will have to do with what my local shops have. Means that some laptops that got released this year may not be up there, but recommend it anyway and i will check it up~ (sorry) (will probably be buying from this site, don't mind the language http://www.skytech.lt/)

Priorities in order: 
Battery that can hold as long as possible! Literally. Sometimes i have to be up and away for 24 hours. Laptop is only thing that will keep me company so i need it to hold out as much as possible.
As thin as possible, prefer ultrabook. Tho decently sized laptops would do too.
13-15 inches.
Quiet. As much silence as it could be.
Backlit keyboard. Gonna be working at nights and outsides sometimes.
Matte screen. Again, gonna be working at days and outside, so it would be nice to be able see screen without looking at reflections.
Having thunderbolt 3 connection.
SSD 512GB, but 256GB would do. Additional HDD with 1TB or so would be nice, but it's not a must since i'm not planning to have anything huge in it.
16GB ram, but 8GB would do.
I7, but I5 would do. As snappy as possible.
mx150 or so? Will do some light gaming from time to time, so would be nice to have mx150 or something along the lines to run games like "Overwatch" and "League of Legends" at respectable frame rates (60 would be nice >_>)
May edit this (hope i'm not trying to create something that doesn't exist) and sorry for mistakes, English is not my first language..

Before this i was using y580. (laptop that i got for my college, for gaming and studies) It was super cheap performance-price ratio for specs (got it for like 700$ at that time) As you would expect it ran hot, was loud, battery is nothing special (about 5 hours, 7 tops), tho it did have SSD, 16GB ram, i7 and dedicate graphic card. And since after long 5 years that was with me it started dying, so i decided to get something more fitting my needs.

EDIT1:
"Huawei MateBook X Pro" looks like a perfect choice. Sadly it's one of the laptops that are not yet available in my country.

EDIT2: 
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Other than that XPS 15 looks like a best choice so far.
Need to check more info about "Asus Zenbook" and "HP Spectre x360", both of them look like solid choices.

EDIT3:
Choosing between those, unless something better comes in~

HP Spectre Pro x360 13.3' 2560 x 1440 QHD IPS Touch i7-6600U 8GB SSD 256GB 887$
HP Spectre 15 x360 15.6' 3840 x 2160 UHD IPS Touch, i7-8550U, 8GB, SSD 512GB, NVIDIA® GeForce® MX150 2GB 1299$
Dell XPS 13 9360 Silver, 13.3' 3200 x 1800 Touchscreen, QHD+, 3200 x 1800 pixels, Gloss, Intel Core i7, i7-7500U, 8 GB, SSD 256 GB 1165$
Asus ZenBook Pro UX550VD, 15.6 ", IPS, FHD, 1920 x 1080, Matt, i5-7300HQ, 8 GB, SSD 512 GB, NVIDIA GeForce 1050, GDDR5, 4 GB 1352$

CPU: i7 4790k @ 4.4 GHz                                                 Case: Fractal Design Define R5                       SSD: Samsung Evo 850 250gb          Monitor:  Benq GL2760        
   GPU: MSI GTX 970 SLI (+140 Core|+400 Mem)               Motherboard: Msi Z97-G5                                 HDD: WD blue 1TB                             CPU Cooler:  Hyper 412s
      RAM: 16GB HyperX DDR3 1600MHz                                PSU: Cooler Master v850                                 Storage: Adata HV610 1TB                  OS: Windows 10           

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XPS15 with the 1080p screen.

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I was shopping for something similar recently recommend:

1. Thinkpad X1 Carbon

2. Dell XPS

3. Spectre X360

4. LG Gram

5. Asus Zenbook

Ryzen 9 3900x * @ 4.35ghz 1.3v

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LG Gram or Dell XPS 13 or 15. XPS has more power, but the Gram is basically the king of battery life in laptops.

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2 hours ago, Sorfex0 said:

Battery that can hold as long as possible!

Thinkpad T480/T580 with upgraded battery, optional MX150

Desktop specs:

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AMD Ryzen 5 5600 Thermalright Peerless Assassin 120 SE ARGB Gigabyte B550M DS3H mATX

Asrock Challenger Pro OC Radeon RX 6700 XT Corsair Vengeance LPX 16GB (8Gx2) 3600MHz CL18 Kingston NV2 1TB PCIe 4.0 NVMe SSD

Montech Century 850W Gold Tecware Nexus Air (Black) ATX Mid Tower

Laptop: Lenovo Ideapad 5 Pro 16ACH6

Phone: Xiaomi Redmi Note 10 Pro 8+128

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7 hours ago, Enderman said:

XPS15 with the 1080p screen.

6 hours ago, Max_Settings said:

LG Gram or Dell XPS 13 or 15. XPS has more power, but the Gram is basically the king of battery life in laptops.

Dell XPS is definitely one of the front runners, XPS 13 looks like a better overall choice, but i'm not sure if intel 620 is enough so probably XPS 15.
LG Gram is not out yet in my country sadly.
 

4 hours ago, ZM Fong said:

Thinkpad T480/T580 with upgraded battery, optional MX150

Honestly, not sure how is it for others, but i can't stand the nipple and overall looks on "Lenovo Thinkpad"...
 

6 hours ago, Captain_Chicken said:

I was shopping for something similar recently recommend:

1. Thinkpad X1 Carbon

2. Dell XPS

3. Spectre X360

4. LG Gram

5. Asus Zenbook

1. Honestly, not sure how is it for others, but i can't stand the nipple and overall looks on "Lenovo Thinkpad"...
2. Dell XPS is definitely one of the front runners, XPS 13 looks like a better overall choice, but i'm not sure if intel 620 is enough so probably XPS 15.
3. Sepctre x360 surpsingly looks like a decent choice even tho i never heard about it before. Tho i'm not sure about battery life. Need to check out more about this one!
4. Sadly one of the laptops that still didn't make into my country.
5. Seems like another solid choice.

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CPU: i7 4790k @ 4.4 GHz                                                 Case: Fractal Design Define R5                       SSD: Samsung Evo 850 250gb          Monitor:  Benq GL2760        
   GPU: MSI GTX 970 SLI (+140 Core|+400 Mem)               Motherboard: Msi Z97-G5                                 HDD: WD blue 1TB                             CPU Cooler:  Hyper 412s
      RAM: 16GB HyperX DDR3 1600MHz                                PSU: Cooler Master v850                                 Storage: Adata HV610 1TB                  OS: Windows 10           

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1 hour ago, Sorfex0 said:

Dell XPS is definitely one of the front runners, XPS 13 looks like a better overall choice, but i'm not sure if intel 620 is enough so probably XPS 15.

 

I love my 13, great size, but the 15 has more IO and battery life.

Haven't really used it for gaming though, other than minecraft which easily got over 60fps.

NEW PC build: Blank Heaven   minimalist white and black PC     Old S340 build log "White Heaven"        The "LIGHTCANON" flashlight build log        Project AntiRoll (prototype)        Custom speaker project

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Ryzen 3950X | AMD Vega Frontier Edition | ASUS X570 Pro WS | Corsair Vengeance LPX 64GB | NZXT H500 | Seasonic Prime Fanless TX-700 | Custom loop | Coolermaster SK630 White | Logitech MX Master 2S | Samsung 980 Pro 1TB + 970 Pro 512GB | Samsung 58" 4k TV | Scarlett 2i4 | 2x AT2020

 

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Okay, i did look into them and those seem to be my choices. What do you guys think is the best out of the bunch?

HP Spectre Pro x360 13.3' 2560 x 1440 QHD IPS Touch i7-6600U 8GB SSD 256GB 887$
HP Spectre 15 x360 15.6' 3840 x 2160 UHD IPS Touch, i7-8550U, 8GB, SSD 512GB, NVIDIA® GeForce® MX150 2GB 1299$
Dell XPS 13 9360 Silver, 13.3' 3200 x 1800 Touchscreen, QHD+, 3200 x 1800 pixels, Gloss, Intel Core i7, i7-7500U, 8 GB, SSD 256 GB 1165$
Asus ZenBook Pro UX550VD, 15.6 ", IPS, FHD, 1920 x 1080, Matt, i5-7300HQ, 8 GB, SSD 512 GB, NVIDIA GeForce 1050, GDDR5, 4 GB 1352$

CPU: i7 4790k @ 4.4 GHz                                                 Case: Fractal Design Define R5                       SSD: Samsung Evo 850 250gb          Monitor:  Benq GL2760        
   GPU: MSI GTX 970 SLI (+140 Core|+400 Mem)               Motherboard: Msi Z97-G5                                 HDD: WD blue 1TB                             CPU Cooler:  Hyper 412s
      RAM: 16GB HyperX DDR3 1600MHz                                PSU: Cooler Master v850                                 Storage: Adata HV610 1TB                  OS: Windows 10           

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5 hours ago, Sorfex0 said:

HP Spectre 15 x360 15.6' 3840 x 2160 UHD IPS Touch, i7-8550U, 8GB, SSD 512GB, NVIDIA® GeForce® MX150 2GB 1299$

This looks OK.

Desktop specs:

Spoiler

AMD Ryzen 5 5600 Thermalright Peerless Assassin 120 SE ARGB Gigabyte B550M DS3H mATX

Asrock Challenger Pro OC Radeon RX 6700 XT Corsair Vengeance LPX 16GB (8Gx2) 3600MHz CL18 Kingston NV2 1TB PCIe 4.0 NVMe SSD

Montech Century 850W Gold Tecware Nexus Air (Black) ATX Mid Tower

Laptop: Lenovo Ideapad 5 Pro 16ACH6

Phone: Xiaomi Redmi Note 10 Pro 8+128

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