I figured there was a use case for it. The price for a laptop goes up exponentially when one of its resources reaches an upper limit. But keep in mind that for that price you could build three desktops with the same RAM and run CI/CD on a redundant distributed cluster (which become necessary for long running simulations, unless you want to keep your laptop at the office all weekend). It's also a more realistic simulation due to system resource and interconnect bottlenecks.