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A project I made solved this by running docker on AWS and doing two-way file sync on changes. Runs quite nicely and transparently.

https://github.com/lime-green/remote-docker-aws

Lots of benefits: speed, battery, fan noise

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And money

I use a shitbox of a thinkpad with my dev environment in the cloud, but they run Linux so I can just as easily run it locally if I have no connection. I buy them for $300-500 on eBay, upgrade them to at least 16gb of RAM and a 1TB Samsung SATA SSD. I have 2 cold spares ready to go, credentials loaded, just need to update and sync a few git repos. 14 inch 1080p IPS displays, i5 processor, 16GB of RAM.

The money I save not paying for Apple laptops could pay for a crazy overpowered dev VM until the end of time.

I used Apple laptops for about 10 years until about 5 keyboard replacements with the butterfly switch debacle.

A MacBook is not that expensive and much faster than AWS VMs in the same price range (assuming a few years of usage) in my experience. The network storage of cloud VMs is particularly frustrating for development, unless you use ephemeral storage perhaps.

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