Depending on where you live, a laminate can remove a lot of worrying and babysitting. No need to humidify it. If I didn't live in a location where a humidifier isn't necessary (I still check the hygrometer on many days...), I think I would only have laminated ukuleles. Like with solid wood, there are different types and quality levels of laminated ukuleles, and it isn't automatically inferior, at least (I feel) in this price range.
You probably know this from your guitar background already, but it was the thing I wanted to avoid and then ended up just accepting it: the desire to find the one right ukulele right off the bat and not ever wanting or needing anything else, didn't quite turn out to be realistic for me and a fair number of folks here. Whichever instrument you buy, playing it for a time will bring forth new desires, based on preferences you discover. It's really a journey. So from that perspective, you can't get it wrong.
Though perhaps the lesson there is to pay attention to the possible resell value. Knowing what I know now, my first four ukulele purchases would have been different, and I probably wouldn't have a custom tenor now (it is a great instrument, but the wrong size for me, at least at this time), but I wouldn't know that if I had not made these purchases. My KoAloha was a gamble, one I didn't except to work out, and yet it became the one purchase I'm the most happy about.
Anyway, as for laminate vs. solid, a solid instrument is likely to have a better resell value because of the belief that solid instruments sound better. My solid acacia tenor does not sound better than the laminate Koalana in the clip (was around $300), and my solid mahagony concert from Stagg does not sound better than some laminate concerts I heard. So based on my limited experience, solid vs. laminate should probably be decided on a comparison of individual instruments. But it is perception also that affects resell values of well, anything really.
Are you set on the tenor size? Planning to tune it re-entrant or linear with a low-g?
Edit: As R. wrote, a lot of this is opinion-based. All of it, really. A vendor typically has had more exposure, but they also don't know how your preferences will develop. There are a few people here who I learned seem to often share my views and tastes, so I value their input higher. Jannery is someone like that, and it was her opinion that tipped the scale when I squirmed about whether to buy the LN pineapple. And I know who I'd ask about baritones, if I ever wanted one. But that comes with hanging out here for a while, and still, only actually playing something will tell you what you like or dislike.
