[suggestion] Looking for a workstation

I’m not going to be doing gaming. Looking for a tower for wfh. Mostly just PDFs and multiple excel windows and a web browser.

Right now, I’m using a laptop I got 4 years ago. Thinkpad L15 with 32gb ram and Ryzen Pro 7. But it’s been giving me lots of problems. BSODs, completely locking up on black screen requiring me to use the reset pinhole, and so on.

Since I’m 95% WFH these days, I figure a tower will be better, and I can hang on this laptop or grab a cheap $500 one for the 5% that I need to travel.

The nearest Micro Center is 300 miles away, so that’s not really feasible.

In store, I have Best Buy or Costco. Best Buy (in-store), doesn’t seem to have much to offer.

There’s also the online option.

Local Costco has four options:

IBUYPOWER Element Gaming Desktop Ryzen 7 32GB RAM 2TB SSD GeForce RTX 5070 $2,299.99

HP M02-0127C Omnidesk Desktop Ryzen 7 32GB RAM 1TB SSD $699.97

CyberPower Xtreme Gaming Desktop Intel Core Ultra 5 32GB RAM 1TB SSD GeForce RTX 5060 $1,499.99

MSI Codex R2 Gaming Desktop Intel Core Ultra 7 32GB RAM 2TB SSD GeForce RTX 5060 Ti $1,899.99

The HP is probably all I need, but I’m scared off by the Costco reviews. Multiple 1 star reviews about basically having a dud that had to be returned within a month or even same day.

Suggestions?