What's better than a Yoga 920?

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Hi!

Housemate needs a new laptop: Requirements: 16GB/1TB, high-res (>1080p) screen, Windows Ink, newer quad-core CPU. Photo editing and library management, office apps, Facebook, and some light video editing. Convertibility is a nice-to-have.

Also, yes, we do the 3-year extended warranty on our laptops. We just do.

We both use mechanical keyboards at our desks and are picky about keyboard feels. Thinking of ordering a Yoga 920 Glass, but want to know if there's something better out there that we missed.

Did some show-rooming today at Best Buy:

Pros of the 920: We really liked the keyboard. The "watchband" hinge seems really nice.

We didn't like the keyboard on the XPS 15. We didn't see an XPS 13 but I'd assume it's similar? (Too Macbook - the short-throw keyboards feel funny.) Also, case plastics looked chintzy.

Razer Blade Stealth is really (really, really) nice, but doesn't support Windows Ink.

Surface Notebook 2 would beat out the 920, but the configuration we want (16GB/1TB) is another $700 vs. the Yoga 920, and we'd be paying for a GPU we don't need.

The Thinkpad L380 looks a little more like an old-school Thinkpad, but the keyboard felt awfully gummy - is that going to be representative of, say, a Carbon X1 or T480s? (They look like they might fit the bill on paper, but we haven't found any to poke in person.)

HP x360 wasn't bad, but just felt/looked cheaper. Is there maybe a reason to go with that over the Yoga 920? Is it cheaper to start with, but the 3-year warranty w/ accidental damage coverage is $280 vs. $160 for the Lenovo and that evens it up.

The Macbook Pro keyboards are just... ugh. And they're as expensive or more expensive than the Surface Notebook, so those are not going to happen even though we both have MBPs at the moment.
 
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So of course she completely reverses course on the whole thin'n'light thing and gets an Inspiron 15 7000 15-inch 2-in-1.