Gotta ask - did you test any Medion kit?
I've had a Medion Beast (yeah the name sucks) for a couple of years as my work / gaming laptop. My first venture into non-mainstream brands. It's fast, thin, light, performs excellently and is styled subtley enough that it passes off as my work machine with little to no comment in front of clients. It's also survived several hundred trips out to clients, many UK holidays and 4 trans-atlantic trips. I've dropped it a few times and other than a couple of scuffs on the (metal) chassis, still looks and performs perfectly. I7, 32GB RAM, 1x 1tb Sabrent rocket nvme and 1 x 2TB Sabrent nvme and a max-p RTX 2070. 17" 144hz screen, I think all in I paid about £1300 as the drives and RAM were extras - even has RGB keys and a bar across the front. Speakers are woeful though. Not cutting edge any more, but a good, solid machine.
I've asked this before - if you guys don't test machines like this, can you really say "Best for under x" and not "Best we've actually tested for x"?