A laptop? That's way too much. Joking aside, clearly a laptop is the right way to go in most cases, but there is a certain appeal to using a terminal like an iP

A laptop? That's way too much. Joking aside, clearly a laptop is the right way to go in most cases, but there is a certain appeal to using a terminal like an iPad with a remote machine build machine. You have long battery life and you can use a very beefy VM for running your dev environment.