1. Overall aescetics - even though it's just a tool, I must feel great while having it on my lap and working with it. Don't like bulky, plastic, RGBalike workhorses. Once I was able to pay for what my eyes like, I've bought Zenbook UX32LN (which still has my wife, after 6 years of power use (great machine, still work flawlessly)). Now for 2 years I was using Surface Book 2 15" (which I bought solely because I fell in love with hinge design and screen quality). This year I was waiting for some update regarding the hinge though but Microsoft introduced Surface Studio, which I don't like because its overall design so I decided to keep SB2 for a bit more as I don't see any nice looking laptops currently on the market that would fit my taste.
2. Keyboard - it must be good quality with fine font (again, aescetics :)), must have highlight, chiclet type, would be great if had extra right key column with PGup/PGdown/home/end buttons (I'm really sad that so few models has it - I've found it really handy for heavy programming)
2.1. Touchpad - must be good quality, support gestures and have nice surface to interact with (preferably glass)
3. Battery life - no need for whole day, but at least for ~4 hours on normal performance is totally fine.
4. Since I use Surface Book 2, I'm really into 3:2 screen aspect ratio - it's really great for work.
2. Keyboard - it must be good quality with fine font (again, aescetics :)), must have highlight, chiclet type, would be great if had extra right key column with PGup/PGdown/home/end buttons (I'm really sad that so few models has it - I've found it really handy for heavy programming)
2.1. Touchpad - must be good quality, support gestures and have nice surface to interact with (preferably glass)
3. Battery life - no need for whole day, but at least for ~4 hours on normal performance is totally fine.
4. Since I use Surface Book 2, I'm really into 3:2 screen aspect ratio - it's really great for work.