The pieces are starting to fall in place for a decent virtual first development experience. I don't expect my recent laptop purchase, which was a combination o

The pieces are starting to fall in place for a decent virtual first development experience. I don't expect my recent laptop purchase, which was a combination of form for comfort, form for clients to see, and perf for working to last more than 3 years. At a $2500 purchase (most expensive damn laptop I've ever got) I'm aware that half that price or less would get everything but the perf. So if a cloud solution was good enough, I have about $400 a year to spend on it. It's about $.5 an hour to match perf on EC2, but we should consider: - I only need the top perf for minutes at a time. A lot of work could be browser based, but browsers cant do the heavy lifting - I also have a desktop, which I use more than the laptop, is significantly cheaper and higher perf. Its most useful to me if both envs are the same.