Productive/ultrabook laptop

[Montyzone]

Hello all

Am in the lookout for a new lightweight laptop (key ingredient), will be used for Cloud, Office, web dev and possibly 2 simultaneous instances of Virtual PC machines (with help of a NAS for the actual images) so no actual storage is necessary
so here's what am looking for:

Starting of at the most important spec:
Lightweight

Backlit keyboard
256GB SSD minimum

8GB minimum
i5 U Processor 8th gen minimum (quad core)
~$1200

Does the spec sound fit for purpose or am I out of my depth? I've been looking at XPS's and Asus Zenbooks, but there are sooo many models and XPS13s seem to have disappointing reviews with performance and bezel issues, while XPS15's are out of my budget (at the moment). Asuses(???!) look great but they don't have backlit keyboards? like seriously?!!

Inputs are greatly appreciated.

Thanks guys
 

Monty

[genexis_x]

Do you need a good display? Do you need dGPU? XPS 13 is good, performance is above average due to good cooling system. Never heard of bezel issues.

[Montyzone]

Thanks for the reply, ZM Fong, No, display is not an issue for me (though its only common sense to have a 1080 reslution) and minimum 60hz screen, but still wouldn't care really, as long as it performs well with virtual machines and multitasking.

 

thanks again

[Montyzone]

I've decided to get XPS 13 16GB 512GB @ £1400 paying it over 3 months.