$1857 gets you:
i7 6600U processor 16gb ram 512gb SSD 2560x1440 WQHD Screen
WiGig OneLink+ Mini DisplayPort™ HDMI™ 3 x USB 3.0 microSD™ Weight Starting at 2.6 lbs (1209 g)
Damn I think I might have just convinced myself here!
I use Arch and pretty much everything "just works," the camera, sound, wireless, etc.
It's rather absurd. Even the Nexus 9, doing light tasks, gets uncomfortably warm.
> Malware in BIOS preinstalled by Lenovo > Is dual core processor sufficient?
My S540 has an SSD,16gb ram and the slower processor and it churns through work fine, I mainly do Java development and on top of that I use the Play Framework which compiles to both Java and Scala so it's more CPU intensive.
I can easily run one or two IDE instances alongside 10+ chrome tabs,several terminals and mongo/mysql db GUIs.