Comment by pjmlp
1 year ago
I know many people where that is exactly the case, not everyone is doing spreadsheets or coding.
Also I haven't owned a desktop since 2003, and my last one at work was in 2006, although we may debate laptops with docking station are also desktops.
In software development, "desktop" is synonymous with laptop.
Laptops + docking stations are usually just as fast as a desktop. You can buy $10,000 desktops that are much faster (50+ cores, and a lot of RAM), but most developers don't find them enough faster to be worth it. (in my benchmarks rebuilds with 40 cores finished faster than rebuilds using all 50, for a 10+million line C++ project) It is easier to have everything locally where you are. If like many of us you sometimes work from home remote into a different machine is always a bit painful.
Exactly, and that also makes Surface like devices good enough way to code on the go.