Check out Clevo computers.
These are barebone laptops that can be tailored exactly to your needs. It's perfect for a work laptop, if you don't need a GPU, for example.
I have one, I'm very happy with it. I was looking for a laptop WITHOUT a GPU, just with the integratel intel graphics. Turns out it's really hard to find these days, if you want it to have a reasonable powerful CPU, as well.
With Clevo I just ordered a 32 GB / i7-9750H / 2 TB barebones with an IPS 4k display and it's as perfect as it gets for my needs:
- it's quite powerful. I do a lot of development and it often requires a lot of CPU power.
- it's not thin. I don't understand why a laptop needs to be thin. I'm not a 3 y/o girl, I can carry 1 kg around.
- it's cheap - I didn't have to dish out $3k for a Dell with equivalent power. It cost me like $700. If it breaks too badly I can just buy a new one, problem solved. Don't have to worry about sending it back, getting replacement while it's being repaired, arguing/worrying/etc.
- it's generic - no weird drivers, no weird bugs, it's just some RAM with an SSD and an Intel CPU.
- it has a ton of ports: fuck this "all you need is 1 thunderbolt port" stuff that makes you hate life unless all you do with your laptop is to check how many likes your latest duck face selfie on instagram received. I can plug an ethernet cable in it without worrying. HDMI, Displayport, no problem. USB? Sure, a few. SD card, no problem. I'm pretty sure you can even request a floppy drive built in, if that is your thing.
- it has a great, power-user oriented keyboard, not some bad imitation of already bad Apple keyboards that are good only if your typing speed is of 6 wpm on a good day (but look cool).
I use it as my main computer - move quite often between our main place and country house, have docking setups with 2 external monitors in both places. Works like a charm.
One downside: No GPU means that playing P99 will suck on it nowadays, since the dyn light "fixes". You need a dedicated GPU for it. It will be annoyingly choppy otherwise. If you don't game, it's a non-issue.
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