Work laptop recommendations?

Getting started at a boutique firm where I can purchase a laptop of my choosing and get reimbursed. I’m not intimately familiar with PC hardware specs, and so I was wondering if anyone had any recommendations with regard to minimum RAM, storage space, number of USB-C ports, etc.

I’m leaning towards the Lenovo ThinkPad since that’s generally seen as the industry standard, and because I’ve also used one before at a prior employer, but there are a few different RAM options, etc.

I’ll be mostly using the laptop for Excel and PPT work, but I’d ideally like to have enough processing power to have several models open at the same time without issue. My new employer also didn’t give me a specific price cap, but I’d like to be reasonable here. I personally don’t see a need to pay over $1,000 for a work laptop, and if there’s a suitable laptop significantly cheaper than that, it’d be perfect.

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Lenovo Thinkpad all day. I personally don't know much about the specs so I'll let someone else opine on that but definitely don't skimp out on processing power. Do you need a fully loaded laptop? Probably not. But having enough compute to run a few models while on calls is very important. There's not much worse than having a model lag while sharing your screen on a call with a client.  

 
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