Well it depends on your mood and period in life, as a fresh grad student, the first time I found a 12" thinkpad I was shocked. The small screen made me focus, the keyboard (x32 days) was slick as one can be.

These days my issue with laptop is the thermal constraints that cut off luxurious CPUs. Seeing a ryzen 5 sff pc gives you so much more oomph.. it makes the oversized toolchains invisible, no need to worry about VMs, large codebase recompile etc etc