That's along the lines of what I do. I get a used Thinkpad for occasional travel and use it to remote into my beastly dual Xeon workstation that is stupid fast

That's along the lines of what I do. I get a used Thinkpad for occasional travel and use it to remote into my beastly dual Xeon workstation that is stupid fast and less than half the cost of a 2015 MacBook Pro.