Just bought two HP Probook 445 G11s - AMD Ryzen 7, RAM 32GB, SSD 1TB. At $799 each.
Several things to comment about:
Win11 running same programs is taking a lot more RAM than win10, between 6-9GB most of the time. It really needs a lot more RAM and I wouldn't skimp on it. In my opinion, 16GB is going to be a future problem. My current old Toughbook has 8GB and with browser running plus L32 and a bit more stuff it's occupying 80% of 8GB most of the time. When it was purchased [ahem] 11 yrs ago browsers were much smaller and 4GB would've been adequate.
The new HP Probooks and Elitebooks have horrible resource hungry thing preloaded called Wolf Security. It's truly a huge resource hog and should be removed immediately. There are lots of ways described online. It's really stupid of them to include it. Also, force the machine during setup to NOT log into Microsoft - find that on the web too [say you are a student or business and have your own network domain].
Have always trusted HP and had terrible experiences with Dell in particular [thermal problems in laptops]. Beware any laptops with soldered in RAM and SSD chips [that's most, including the slightly lower HP Pavilion Plus and 'consumer' grade beneath that]. They cannot be expanded and SSD cannot be changed - just like all Apples that I know of.
Pull the trigger quickly. You may be too late by now. 2 weeks ago HP had no stock and were costing the above items to deliver in the first week of May and cost $2020 each!!!!! Amazon sold the above but have been cleared out in the meantime and have practically no remaining HPs. Ironically they were shipped to a Canadian corporate customer who never accepted them, so mine came out of a batch of 200 machines that were never opened and came from Canada [the irony]. Full Amazon and HP support. I did check Amazon a couple of days ago and they were wiped out of ALL quality laptops.
Finally, I'd like to say how AWFUL it is to move over browser settings these days between PCs, with the marked exception of Firefox which is old-school. Chrome, Edge and Vivaldi [my choice] are only moveable by syncing through their servers and then deleting the data afterwards. That's horrible and extremely time consuming, especially when doing two machines with different data sets. It took me hours to come to that conclusion when still struggling with Chrome itself. Vivaldi was by far the better of the 'Chrome based' browsers in this regard despite it's highly improved feature set and UI. To be clear, I use Vivaldi 98%, FF 1%, Chrome 1% and Edge only because MS will keep re-loading it and breaking other things around it, so it's easier to keep it but not run it.
What's this to do with L32? Not much, cus it's easy to install, but it's the rest that'll shape or should shape your choices of hardware and software.
73, Paul.