One big advantage is in working from home: if you have a laptop you can just take it home and there is your dev environment exactly as it was setup at work. Al

One big advantage is in working from home: if you have a laptop you can just take it home and there is your dev environment exactly as it was setup at work. Also while I desktop at work, I have a P51 at home, which I am typing this on. It is connected to an external mouse and keyboard, plus two external screens (I have no 4k screens, but it does have a real graphics card so it could pull them if I had any). It has a 4 core i7, and 32gb of ram, so you don't necesarily have to compromise if you only occasionally need portability (it is absolutely no ultra-portable).