I’m a Dell person too.
HP and Compaq I avoid and don’t recommend.
I am a Dell or Lenovo guy. I’ve had so many laptops for work over the years and also at home I really couldn’t recommend any others for windows. Dell has some really nice 15.6 widescreens these days that have almost as much real estate as my old dell dual core 17” at about half the weight.
My personal laptop is an Ideapad Flex 14”. I just purchased a Flex 4 14” for my son with an i7 6th gen and a 256gb ssd for about $630. If I was going to go high end I would look at a YOGA with the 6th Gen i7 and a 500 gb a video card and as much ram as I could get. probably about $1400 if I took a guess. buy from Lenovo direct or the dell outlet. Dell Outlet get a refurb with the same warranty as a new one with a great discount. Usually they have been returned, fully recertified and are in better shape than new.