Any laptop suggestions?

Not sure. My work machine is a T470s. I’ve had that for about two years, and it’s as solid as a rock. It’s traveled a fair bit with me and suffered a couple of knocks and it doesn’t show any sign of it. We have a few 480’s in the office and they have the same reliability. They biggest difference is they stopped doing the docking ports. You use a USB-C port replicator now.