I remember being at the MS Redmond campus for an MVP summit shortly before .NET was released (ca. 2000). Some of the devs in the VB.Net team would amble in to p

I remember being at the MS Redmond campus for an MVP summit shortly before .NET was released (ca. 2000). Some of the devs in the VB.Net team would amble in to participate in discussions and whatnot (it was very informal). Most of them had laptops and did email and even coding while they were in the conference room. Again, this was 10 years ago or so, but I'd expect that developers can still get a laptop if they want to. Personally I've always preferred a desktop machine to code, because a laptop means I can take work home.