Interesting. If you play games, I can see the point - otherwise, I'm not sure why you'd buy a desktop for personal use! You're then stuck with it wherever it is, your desk in your spare room or study or whatever. A laptop, on the other hand, you can use wherever you like - and you can still get a reasonable facsimile of a desktop PC by plugging it in to a full-size keyboard/mouse/external monitor(s).
(I've got 2 x 27" monitors plugged into my 13" Macbook Pro. They're 2560x1440, it's true, rather than 5K, but I'm old enough, and sit far away enough, that I don't mind. Hi-DPI is very worthwhile when I'm using my laptop as a laptop, but from a distance of 1m it's much less of a draw.)
Performance isn't as good, but I've always found this an OK tradeoff. I like the portability and the option of using my PC in the front room. As far as performance goes, any development I do for myself, for whatever reasons, tends to be less demanding than stuff I do for money; and for the non-development stuff, mainly (e.g., now) me staring at the internet via Firefox, it's just not an issue.
Interesting. If you play games, I can see the point - otherwise, I'm not sure why you'd buy a desktop for personal use! You're then stuck with it wherever it is, your desk in your spare room or study or whatever.
The only thing I use an actual computer for is development. Anything else, I either use my iPhone or iPad.
A laptop, on the other hand, you can use wherever you like - and you can still get a reasonable facsimile of a desktop PC by plugging it in to a full-size keyboard/mouse/external monitor(s).
I posted earlier. But while a suitable MacBook Pro and iMac are around the same price, a separate 5K monitor is $1300.
(I've got 2 x 27" monitors plugged into my 13" Macbook Pro. They're 2560x1440, it's true, rather than 5K, but I'm old enough, and sit far away enough, that I don't mind. Hi-DPI is very worthwhile when I'm using my laptop as a laptop, but from a distance of 1m it's much less of a draw.)
I’m not too concerned about the hiDPI. More about the usable real estate when you push it passed the pixel doubled resolution.
Performance isn't as good, but I've always found this an OK tradeoff. I like the portability and the option of using my PC in the front room.
My first job when I got married a few years ago was remote and since then I’ve had jobs with a liberal work from home policy. I’m very careful to separate my work life (including side projects) from my home life so my (step)kids know not to disturb me when I am working. I work in my office.
As far as performance goes, any development I do for myself, for whatever reasons, tends to be less demanding than stuff I do for money;
The most demanding thing I will be doing is running Android emulators and Windows VMs.
and for the non-development stuff, mainly (e.g., now) me staring at the internet via Firefox, it's just not an issue.
(I've got 2 x 27" monitors plugged into my 13" Macbook Pro. They're 2560x1440, it's true, rather than 5K, but I'm old enough, and sit far away enough, that I don't mind. Hi-DPI is very worthwhile when I'm using my laptop as a laptop, but from a distance of 1m it's much less of a draw.)
Performance isn't as good, but I've always found this an OK tradeoff. I like the portability and the option of using my PC in the front room. As far as performance goes, any development I do for myself, for whatever reasons, tends to be less demanding than stuff I do for money; and for the non-development stuff, mainly (e.g., now) me staring at the internet via Firefox, it's just not an issue.