Laptop for computer science and gaming

• Total budget and country of purchase: USA, up to $1700

• Do you prefer a 2 in 1 form factor, good battery life or best specifications for the money? Pick or include any that apply. Battery life and specs

• How important is weight and thinness to you? I will be carrying it around in a backpack, so weight is more important than thinness, but it would be nice if it wasn't enormous.

• Which OS do you require? Windows, Mac, Chrome OS, Linux. Windows

• Do you have a preferred screen size? If indifferent, put N/A. n/a

• Are you doing any CAD/video editing/photo editing/gaming? List which programs/games you desire to run.

Games and Code editors

• If you're gaming, do you have certain games you want to play? At what settings and FPS do you want? Stellaris, PUBG, Space engineers, Civ games, Dreadnaught should preferably run at 60fps at 1080p.

• Any specific requirements such as good keyboard, reliable build quality, touch-screen, finger-print reader, optical drive or good input devices (keyboard/touchpad)? Good feeling and full size keyboard (I'm used to cherry mx blues, but don't want to lug around a keyboard)

• Leave any finishing thoughts here that you may feel are necessary and beneficial to the discussion. A strong cpu is required, as well as at least 8gb of ram (for cpu intensive strategy games and running android studio).