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.
> If power goes, I don’t lose anything, the laptop is still running.
What kind of monster doesn’t use a UPS!? =P
I mostly work in games and VR. Maybe someday there will be a laptop that doesn’t suck for game development. Sadly that day has not yet come.
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.
And then someone with 4 cores tries to run the code and its unusable because it only runs well with 32 cores.
A great pet peeve of mine is that designers are notorious for only testing their designs on high-resolution MacBooks. A lot of tools look like crap on 1080p Windows displays.
The benefits of 32-cores mostly comes with compile times and build processes. Where, depending on your project, it can make a HUGE difference. One of my C++ projects went from 15 minutes to under 3.
The problem is now my work desktop is a 32-core Threadripper w/ huge GPU and way too much ram.
It’s kinda nice knowing that if my computer ever slows down it’s because of bad programming and not having a too slow computer.
I want to like laptops. I really really do. But they’re slower, have bad keyboards, and have tiny screens. Or I’m docked and the fact that it’s a laptop isn’t meaningful.
That said, I can’t fricken wait to see Apple build a beast of a desktop with their silicon. I just really really hope the GPU doesn’t suck. Lack of good GPU on Mac is a huge problem for certain lines of work.