Recommendations for workshop laptop

I am looking for a laptop that I can use to run lasers in a workshop. It will be exposed to dust, sawdust, and some smoke. It will do some very light manipulation in the program lightburn, but most of the designs I create will be done on another computer so it just needs to be powerful enough to run the lightburn program.

My main concern is toughness. This laptop will need to stand up to some mildly adverse conditions. I don't plan on using it as a frisbee, but it may get bumped and jostled and will need to have good cooling and hopefully be easy to clean out any dust/sawdust accumulation.

Honestly, 8gb of ram and a 256gb SSD is probably enough, but I'm not afraid to go above those specs.

Thanks!

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