IMO, an even bigger difference is screen size. I’m not talking about 23” vs 27”, I mean a monster, like 43”. My work laptop and personal gaming desktop are both

IMO, an even bigger difference is screen size. I’m not talking about 23” vs 27”, I mean a monster, like 43”. My work laptop and personal gaming desktop are both hooked up to an Acer Predator 43” 4K monitor. It is utterly massive, and is a delight to both code on and game on. For work, it’s effectively like having four 21.5” monitors perfectly aligned to a grid. I usually have two browser windows up top, then a wide terminal on the bottom, usually sliced in half with nvim on one side. If I have a large refactoring project or the like, I can fill the entire screen with nvim and have buffers galore. For gaming, nothing draws you into the world like it. On top-down games like Factorio, or old RTS, it’s almost cheating due to how much of the map you can see. The fact that it also does 120 Hz (144 Hz with two DP cables connected, but I don’t really care enough to bother swapping cables all the time) is icing on the cake.