I need a laptop super quick, it wasn't my 1st choice by any means but I'm happy with the speed and screen size. This one was $850 on sale, won't pay $1k for it (current price).
Coming off of ProBook and Elitebook, before that Apple, the design of this is barebones. It's not a laptop that your friends will envy, at least not visually.
i7 processor, SSD that is actually bigger than a lot of other options make it a quick and pleasant to work machine.
The keyboard is on the cheap side which puts a small damper on the experience but it's not bad.
The speakers are quite good for laptop.
Downside:
Had to remove tons of garbage that came with it, Win10 is Home as I would've preferred Professional, but might upgrade later.
For $1000 I would probably wait for some of the better looker and similarly capable offering in the gaming or business departments of Dell, HP, etc.