I need a work laptop (new). Help me out

[iego]

Your W520 was pretty much a beast back in the day, and if you are willing to jack it up a bit and put a fresh load of windows on there, it may be able to perform with xactimate again. To replace it today, that class of computer (Mobile Workstations) generally start about $1300 or so and go up from there.

You could consider adding a lot of RAM, 16GB or more, and it looks like the 8GB sticks are about $63 ea for $126 to go to 16GB.
https://www.amazon.com/Crucial-Singl...al+ddr3+sodimm

Then add an SSD to rejuvenate your storage. $125 for the 500GB, $75 for the 256GB, look at how much you are using now to estimate your needs.
https://www.amazon.com/dp/B0784SLQM6...ing=UTF8&psc=1

Then with a fresh load of Windows, you should be back to rocking and rolling again (for a top of the line 7 year old mobile workstation.)

I can help you with installing/the fresh windows load/moving your data and applications back if you need it.

Just another option for your consideration...

The below is an example base W520... if you give me your model number I can find the exact specs of yours.



-John