Best personal laptop to supplement work?

I’m so close to buying a new MBP but then remembered excel isn’t great and you really can’t use VBA. The only problem is, I have no idea what laptops are the best now a days.. Lenovo? Dell?

$1,000 budget, don’t care about anything but 16GB ram.

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Partial to Lenovos, hard to go back to others after having one for work.

What are the applications you are looking to run? Pretty basic use or do you have specific needs (e.g. gaming)?

 

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