Designer laptop under $1500?

Question

laptops

Good afternoon. There will be many letters.
Help with choosing a laptop. The bottom line is this: for almost 3 years I have been using the Lenovo IdeaPad G50-45, with integrated Radeon 6 graphics, an AMD6 processor, 16 GB of RAM. Enough even for rendering (so far I've tried only one room, the render time is about 36-40 minutes, it hung during the construction of the scene for 20-30 seconds 3 times). But sometimes he thinks for a very long time in graphic editors - Illustrator, Photoshop, Corel (if the document has a large number of objects, or the size of the working area exceeds 1000 * 1000 mm (I often work with widescreen).
In short: even such a mediocre laptop is generally enough for my tasks , but I want:
1. screen with IPS matrix
2. SSD (+hdd or sshdd)
3. laconic design (thin frames, for example, not a vulgar "gaming" look) and acceptable weight
4. USB > 2 pcs, HDMI (preferably, but not critical), headphone jack
5. don't care about the Touchpad
6. don't care about the card reader
7 Don't care about the camera
8. Don't care about autonomy and charging time
9. Pre-installed OC doesn't matter
10. There's never too much RAM
11. Warranty
How critical is the presence of a top-end video card, should it be discrete? The Adobe package as a whole, as far as I understand, is not particularly demanding on video processors? Core i5 7th generation or Core i7?
Please help.
I started looking for laptops, and immediately dug into the top of the possible characteristics - maximum RAM, processor and video card .. And then I realized that by some miracle I was working on a "brick", and, in general, a laptop is a little more powerful than it = happiness.
Considered:
Dell G5 5587 G515-7428 (the price and characteristics are good, the dimensions are annoying, the screen frame and the matrix according to reviews are terrible, although after my TN + film it will probably seem like a miracle to me)
Lenovo Y530-15ICH 81FV00A (more expensive than Dell, as far as I understand - the RAM is soldered (correct if not), I didn’t find any info on the screen)
Xiaomi mi Notebook Pro (I’m drooling, but the RAM is soldered, the mx150 card - they say it’s a stub, but I didn’t find GTX in Russia)
What can you say about HP ENVY x360 15 -bq100?

Answer 1

In your description, you didn't specify whether you're working on a laptop only , or if you plan to use a separate monitor and the laptop as a second screen. This is important because in the case of using a separate monitor (and for a designer this is clearly the best choice), the requirements for the quality of the screen of the laptop itself are significantly reduced, and in your case it will be the main snag: for professional work with color, you need a screen with sRGB coverage as close as possible to 100% + the ability to calibrate the laptop screen. These are solvable tasks, but with separate monitors, these tasks are much easier to solve, and in this case, working with layouts (especially widescreen ones) will be much more comfortable for you.
If you prefer to work exclusively on a laptop, you did not indicate your preferences for the screen diagonal and the criticality of having a hi dpi screen for you (i.e. is the resolution of 1920x1080 enough for you or is it necessary to have 2560x1440 / 3840x2160).
Otherwise, I would suggest that you pay attention to the following points:
Configuration expandability is usually provided by "professional" laptop lines (what they call Mobile Workstations, e.g. Lenovo ThinkPad P series, Dell Precision, etc.), but they usually do not meet your requirement for "concise design" that lightweight laptops do like Dell XPS, but they are no longer talking about the extensibility of the configuration, only if you select the one that suits your parameters. Therefore, you should decide which of the aspects is more important for you - this will give a hint in which lines to look for candidates. Then choose a shortlist for the same Yandex.Market and go to read reviews on them on Notebookcheck or another similar resource. Finally, if possible, then go to the store to feel the selected options live and then make a decision.
Good luck!