I'm not going to make excuses for Dell, but FWIW, I found their Precision Mobile Workstation laptops to be pretty high quality. The ones I had still used plast

I'm not going to make excuses for Dell, but FWIW, I found their Precision Mobile Workstation laptops to be pretty high quality. The ones I had still used plastic for the cases rather than aluminum, but aside from that the build quality is probably much closer to what you're looking for.