Looking for a new laptop. Some suggestions please...

For reasons that I simply cannot fathom, my employer has decreed that the entire office is going to laptops. In my situation, a laptop is fine for portable requirements where I have to be somewhere in the building and need access to my computer, or for traveling. For any real computing work, I consider a laptop absolutely useless.

However, I have no choice in the matter, and I'm wondering if someone out there is able to recommend a good lappy for me based on the following requirements:

Quad core (i7 preferred)
At least 8 GB RAM
SSD preferred (500 GB or larger)
Can drive two external monitors or has a docking port available that will
Must not be an HP (I have had zero luck with HP anything).

I plan to wipe it immediately and reinstall Windows 10 Pro and the appropriate drivers to get rid of the bloatware, so that isn't a problem for me. I just want a good, powerful laptop that can keep up to having 10+ large spreadsheets open, mail, a browser, and some number crunching going on in the background. My current laptop cannot and my desktop can run circles around it.

Any advice gratefully received.

If your employer is switching to laptops, how is it that you can choose one?
Doesn't your employer furnish each employee with a computer?
Most do, and you have little or no choice as to make or model.
Is your situation different?

margrave55 said:

If your employer is switching to laptops, how is it that you can choose one?
Doesn't your employer furnish each employee with a computer?
Most do, and you have little or no choice as to make or model.
Is your situation different?

I am able to choose the laptop model I want, based on certain criteria. It must have a minimum of 8 GB and run Windows 10 Pro, after that anything is fair game, including the price, though I would probably limit the price to between $1000 and $1500 CDN.

My comments too on his identical post in the sevenforum.
BTW, the Dell I referenced has an NVIDIA video chip.

Federal government contract, at least everywhere I have been, is with Dell hardware.

NavyLCDR said:

I have had numerous instances of bad luck with Toshiba laptops in the past so personally, I would not consider that brand.

I agree. A previous laptop was a Toshiba. The HD failed within 6 months, and the replacement Toshiba HD three months after that. After about a year and a half the screen started to go bonkers, tearing and only working half the time. Although it did last longer than my last HP...