I have never liked using laptops for software development for all the reasons (and more) listed in the comments. Also consider using Raspberry Pi for portable a

I have never liked using laptops for software development for all the reasons (and more) listed in the comments. Also consider using Raspberry Pi for portable apps and development, I am also into open hardware, great projects like the Arduino and pure electronics on bread boards and designing your own pcb. Linux, once the bellwether of of tech freedom is slowly being diluted by corporate interests and bad decisions. There are still places to explore, the amazing world of materials like graphene which is fairly simple to synthesize. To quote from Breaking Bad, "It's Saul Goodman!"