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What's your budget? T480/580 are still good but they're getting expensive.
Not sure. $200-300 is the range where I would almost certainly get one. If it's more than that now then there's other options I'd need to weigh.
5825u laptops are like $300 for the same amount of ram and storage as a T480. They are much faster and quite efficient.
T480s are around the $200-300 range. I will be honest, it's not worth it at that point.