Thinkpad T480 redundant, X1 Carbon 2023 gets stuck, T14s is it the best option?

Hey guys. Looking for a budget laptop that is a workstation willing to go upto 1.3k CAD. Windows sysadmin, mainly have a lot of tabs, claude, chatgpt and a vm here and there but not a lot. Mostly cloud based. Which one would you guys recommend?

At the minimum id say 32 GB, and minimum 512 GB but 1 TB is preferred but open to it.