Enjoy waiting for your work tool which puts food on the table while it's in the shop I guess. My machines are orders of magnitude less expensive than your quote, so I have others on standby and I can take a ride up the street to buy parts if I don't feel like waiting a day for delivery.

> With the laptop connected in clamshell mode.

For those of us not part of the Apple cult/SV bubble in-group, that just means "closed" right?

What a shitty form factor though. It takes up desk space while limiting you to a single external display. All those hard and soft limitations so you can drag a single machine into a meeting or work (poorly) on a couch or in a cafe is an absolutely terrible tradeoff. In the age of syncing everything over the Internet the value of a single machine is negative. Putting all the eggs into one basket has never been a good idea.

And who even needs their entire machine in a meeting? Anyone that is doing creative work during a meeting is thoroughly doing it wrong. I would tell you to give a couple of desktops a try but I guess if you're Apple's prisoner already you'll be out $10k if you want properly outfitted desktop machines for your home and office.