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I second this, my all AMD Lenovo ThinkPad is the stablest machine I've ever had, even when I'm cooking it by playing some more demanding Steam titles.
I went with a laptop for the flexibility, sometimes I game, sometimes I just want to take my system with me.
In your case, go for a workstation instead.
Which thinkpad did you get? I'm looking at sunsetting my x1 extreme gen 2.
A basic Thinkpad E14 Gen3 with a Ryzen 7 5000.
What I liked about Lenovo is that I could tailor the laptop to my specifications on their site. I could order the machine with Linux pre-installed or with no OS. As I had no intention of sending any money to Microsoft, the value of the "Windows tax" went to doubling the systems' RAM.