> The best developers I've known wrote code with tiny laptops with poor 1366x768 displays. They didn't think it was an impediment.

Everytime I read something like this I cringe. Ergonomics is terrible with laptops. There are no osha approved laptops.

Those developers should sit in a good chair, with a properly positioned keyboard monitor and body, and head off the problems their body will encounter. (or is encountered but ignored)