Ask HN: Best alternative to an X1 carbon

For the last 4 years my 1st gen X1 carbon has been my most beloved possession, but time and my miserable treatment of it have taken their toll, thankfully ive come into some cash so its time to retire this old war horse and choose a new machine.

Normally id be all too eager to just grab a more up to date X1 and e done with it but a few little things are stopping me doing that, namely that i want 16gb of ram which makes an x1 very expensive and that id rather like to play a few games again so something with a discreet GPU would be ideal.

based on current press the word is that the Huawei Matebook X pro would easily meet all my needs as would the dell XPS 15,unfortunately both of those are rare as rocking horse turds here in the UK, not impossible but generally very overpriced

the next nearest match ive seen to the matebook pro is the xiaomi notebook pro but it just seems too cheap, so could anyone either reassure me of the xiaomis quality and chance of surviving 4-5 years being carted about like a sack of spuds or suggest another device that can match the incredible durability, battery life and lightness of the X1 carbon with a half decent GPU and 16Gb ram