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If productivity is so important, why are people using laptops at all? Desktop processors are faster.

If you just work in one location only, sure. I work from home, the office, coffee shop. When Im at home I often like to code from the couch rather than the home office. Laptops add flexibility. I like their middle ground of flexibility and performance.

I’m also one of those “weird” people that don’t use an external monitor. And yet I’m still just as productive, probably more so, than most of my coworkers.

I like having two large monitors and a desktop-style "mechanical" keyboard, but there's absolutely a benefit to having a full productive work environment with you, with your data and work in progress, anywhere you might want to work - even if you're not online. And when you're in an office (or home office) environment, you just plug in and continue from where you left off.

A high-end MacBook Pro may not be cheap, but it packs some serious mobile compute power along with good battery life.

List of places I worked from last month:

- my desk at home

- my couch at home

- my dinner table at home (in a boring call while preparing and eating lunch)

- my desk at work

- like 15 different meeting rooms in offices across two continents

- couch on terrace at work

- beanbag on terrace at work

- hotel room desk

- airport lounge

- airplane (if you count watching conference talks as working)

Flexibility is great!

And cheaper! I personally run on a M1 Mac Mini (and iMac before that)

I paid less than $700 for the Mac Mini right when the M1 chip came out. It’s hands down the fastest computer I’ve ever owned.

  > I paid less than $700 for the Mac Mini right when the M1 chip came out. It’s hands down the fastest computer I’ve ever owned.

same, though i did kind of regret getting only 8GB ram (for what i am doing).

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