Yea, it's more expensive and not so upgradeable and you lose a few seconds by setting it up. The display adapters should be only a few dollars, so maybe not id

Yea, it's more expensive and not so upgradeable and you lose a few seconds by setting it up. The display adapters should be only a few dollars, so maybe not ideal, but hardly a really good reason. There's not really a reason why a powerful laptop should be really bad on battery power. Modern CPUs save power pretty well, especially mobile ones. And any powerful GPU should have the capability to be disabled. But still, it's mobile or "mobile". As long as it fits in a backpack and I don't have to hike for hours I really don't see the problem. Maybe laptops today are not completely feasible, but I suspect in one or two generations the successor to USB3/4/? will be capable of driving everything from screens to external GPUs or CPUs so you'd only connect one cable and have everything attached there. But that's not now. For me it's just a minor inconvenience for the big convenience of having everything with me. And everything is not only stuff I have synced or in a version control system (by the way, don't you have that moments where you are somewhere and remember that the code you want to access is on a machine dozens of kilometers away and you forgot to push it?), but really everything and everything exactly how I left it. It's just the feeling that I can just suspend and go somewhere, no matter where, get my laptop out and continue exactly where I left off.