Just wanted to second your recommendation and add that they also run Windows very well (although personally I ran Fedora on my previous ThinkPad and current Dell XPS 15).

If you do go down the Windows route, just make sure you create new installation media from the Microsoft website and do a clean install before anything else.

+1 for the Dell XPS 13. I'm running Arch Linux on one for work and I've had 0 hardware/driver issues, which is rare for a laptop.