> But even a fast laptop is slower than a decent workstation, and if your developers want a local build environment they're probably going to want a decent work

> But even a fast laptop is slower than a decent workstation, and if your developers want a local build environment they're probably going to want a decent workstation. They'll want a fast (and expensive) laptop as well, though, because they're not going to carry their workstation home with them and obviously you expect them to be able to work from home. What kind of builds require more than one of the new MacBook Pro’s? And what about using cloud development environments instead of a fully remote desktop? I haven’t properly tested GitHub Codespaces, but it seems to me that a lightweight laptop (ie cheapest MB Air, if Apple) with MDM plus codespaces can work really well. Sure, not everyone is using these tools, but to state that devs in general need both a beefy workstation and a laptop sounds a bit outlandish to me.