Not sure about your use-case, but nowadays i don't do anything fancy with my laptop. So far I've decided that going forward I'll likely be getting a cheap base

Not sure about your use-case, but nowadays i don't do anything fancy with my laptop. So far I've decided that going forward I'll likely be getting a cheap baseline laptop (curretly eyeing a 16gb/512gb macbook air m4 or the upcoming framework 12) and then get some beefier desktop to remote into. i don't even need a gpu, the heavy stuff i do largely revolves around running virtual machines. I did most of my work in a screen session running emacs on a 48cpu/192gb ram machine in a previous job, and I did some tests and remote desktop nowadays is pretty good (way above the "usable" threshold). > That is essentially doubling the $999 cost. yeah, it sucks.