Productivity Laptop recommendations request

[Lotus]

I'm not much of a laptop person and don't keep up with what's out there, but here are my requirements:

IPS screen (1080p is fine)

4 core CPU (i5-8250u is fine)

5 hours youtube streaming over wifi battery life

16GB memory (or 8GB with expandable SODIMM)

thin and light with metal frame

Reliability, with no overheating or high percentage of failure issues. Build quality in terms of rigidity/feel is not important. Build quality in terms of hinge failure is important.

No GPU requirements at all, and the lower the price the better.

 

Basically, I'm looking for the cheapest laptop that meets these specs. My immediate thought was to get a Dell XPS 13, but they only offer the 16GB of memory with the 4k screen, which I don't need and doubles the price. Then I found the Acer Swift 3 SF314-52G-55WQ, but that only has 8GB of non-expandable soldered memory. I would get that in a heartbeat if it were upgradeable. I guess my problem is every laptop I find that meets my specs has either a dedicated GPU or a 4k display making for a very expensive machine with specs and hardware that I don't need and don't want to spend money on. Any suggestions?

[General Winter]

i thing this is good but according to this there is only 1 ram slot (or 1 extra idk) so you(may) have to get a full on 16gb ram stick (i guess still better than nothing if you want that upgrade really badly in a flexible form factor)

 

https://www.amazon.com/Lenovo-Yoga-15-6-Touch-Screen-Thunderbolt/dp/B073PV7B3L/ref=pd_sbs_147_2?_encoding=UTF8&pd_rd_i=B073PV7B3L&pd_rd_r=9a25b2ce-7fff-11e8-914f-9f4b0c666b45&pd_rd_w=SrqO8&pd_rd_wg=sNNWx&pf_rd_i=desktop-dp-sims&pf_rd_m=ATVPDKIKX0DER&pf_rd_p=5825442648805390339&pf_rd_r=6YBWMQFS7H40CP5ZA7A3&pf_rd_s=desktop-dp-sims&pf_rd_t=40701&psc=1&refRID=6YBWMQFS7H40CP5ZA7A3

 

 

you should read up on it, it seems like you can put 16gb of ram into this thing either way

https://forums.lenovo.com/t5/Lenovo-Yoga-Series-Notebooks/Lenovo-yoga-720-15-inch-RAM-Upgrade/td-p/3754976

[General Winter]

alternatively this one has the 16gb of ram already, idk your budget but around $1K is what you're looking at for a solid laptop of your demands

 

https://www.amazon.com/Lenovo-Touchscreen-Quad-Core-i7-7700HQ-Fingerprint/dp/B07D9T3CFX/ref=pd_sbs_147_3?_encoding=UTF8&pd_rd_i=B07D9T3CFX&pd_rd_r=d236e198-7fff-11e8-b57f-bb83f84ca79e&pd_rd_w=vxYZD&pd_rd_wg=2c1Kx&pf_rd_i=desktop-dp-sims&pf_rd_m=ATVPDKIKX0DER&pf_rd_p=5825442648805390339&pf_rd_r=V6FVVPC9MCQDGWKE7AWF&pf_rd_s=desktop-dp-sims&pf_rd_t=40701&psc=1&refRID=V6FVVPC9MCQDGWKE7AWF

[genexis_x]

36 minutes ago, Lotus said:

Reliability

Thinkpad T/P series? This mainly depends on luck

 

There is Swift 3 14 with upgradable RAM (SF314-54)