Adding a smidgen to my own "sage" advice (ahem):

What about warranty? Most brand-name workstation / server grade PCs come with a 3/3 warranty. Prior to Covid, it might have been 3/3/3 (last 3 for on-site ... not sure how practical in this day and age). In my limited experience, it's the first year that really counts, as that's when you do your "burn-in".

So if the workstation you are looking at from the Bay (or trusted local shop) has a 1 yr warranty left out of the 3, and could be yours at a decent discount. Then that's the kind of "NOS" that you want.

A reputable lightly used "refurb" might be as golden as that proverbial 4 year-old 5000-mile car owned by the "lil' ol' lady" who only drove it during spring and fall, when it's not too hot and there is no salt on the road. That "ol' lady" has burnt it in for you, in addition to babying it for you. In reality random folks never get to these vehicles because they are usually snapped up by the dealer for his favourite niece ... But on refurb higher-end PCs the odds are better. May just need to pop in your own trusted SSD.

Here we wish the old-timer Phil Schaadt is still around and would perhaps drive home the importance of "burn-in", backed up with some stats. Granted that some of the local boutique "system integrators" may oversell you on that "burn-in". But it really is worth something IMO.

Most of the visitors to this forum are highly educated, quite likely more so than population average.

One look at the copper price chart and what's around the world tells us that the chance that your IdeaPads or XPSes this year will be more reliable than they were 2 years ago (which were wobbly even then) is ... you might as well believe the next version of desktop Dragon, whatever and whenever, will play nice with Word and Outlook, like the proverbial peanut butter and jam with sandwich.