Of course it's relevant. You can get much more power/$ once portability isn't a concern and you can have a huge display instead of a small one (or two huge disp

Of course it's relevant. You can get much more power/$ once portability isn't a concern and you can have a huge display instead of a small one (or two huge displays instead of one huge and one small). If you're running a full-blown IDE or a lot of tests, it's a significant work improvement to have a desktop (even comparing a high end MBP vs iMac).