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Depends on your routine, and how much your development time intermingles with design, gaming, or being with slow/no internet.

I've tried to talk myself into a desktop & light laptop setup for years and everytime it's just felt easier to not think about syncing files across machines or whether the light travel laptop is going to be good enough for writing native code (i.e. compile times) or creative work (sitting here with ffmpeg spinning fans right now, and used Adobe's suite most of today around town).

How many developers need a desktop when there's cloud computing for heavy lifting?