> Or I’m docked and the fact that it’s a laptop isn’t meaningful.
You might be underestimating the value in that. I’ve been working off of MacBooks since 2011, and for almost all of that time I’ve had them docked and hooked up to multiple monitors, and working just like a desktop.
But if I ever need to go anywhere, meet a client, travel, go to another room/office, I just unplug and go. If power goes, I don’t lose anything, the laptop is still running. Whatever happens, it’s all there with me, always. It’s not as comfortable when it’s on laptop mode but it’s better to have a less comfortable experience than not having it available at all.
It’s a portable desktop. And I love it. But yeah if you’re looking for workstation-level specs, then yeah, a laptop is never going to be enough.
I have a desktop dev machine that I ssh into via zerotier and it has been a fantastic dev experience. As a result my entire world needs to be in the terminal, which for me, was pretty easy (tmux+neovim). `tmux a` and I'm right back where I left off and it doesn't matter what front-end computer I use. I can now use my ipad as my front-end cpu which is a great in-the-bed machine.
The only catch is I need to make sure my dev machine is online.
Now with neovim 0.5 with support for LSP and treesitter, neovim is on par with visual studio code.
You might be underestimating the value in that. I’ve been working off of MacBooks since 2011, and for almost all of that time I’ve had them docked and hooked up to multiple monitors, and working just like a desktop.
But if I ever need to go anywhere, meet a client, travel, go to another room/office, I just unplug and go. If power goes, I don’t lose anything, the laptop is still running. Whatever happens, it’s all there with me, always. It’s not as comfortable when it’s on laptop mode but it’s better to have a less comfortable experience than not having it available at all.
It’s a portable desktop. And I love it. But yeah if you’re looking for workstation-level specs, then yeah, a laptop is never going to be enough.