I suspect I'm a bit of an anomaly here, then, as I value portability over pretty much everything else. I'm a full-stack webdev, running Visual Studio, SQL Server, Adobe CS, and all the usual extra apps on a Surface Go (8GB RAM, 128GB C:, 1.61GHz Pentium), and you know what? It's not just tolerable; it's great - I can run all of the above at the same time with no issues.
What I get is portability - I use a dock with two monitors at my desk, but when I'm on the move I'm carrying very small kit that I can power with a mobile phone charger or even a battery pack.
In fact, the only time I've thought "I should be doing this on a more powerful machine" was rendering video - if I was doing that on a daily basis, I'd be wanting something with more beef.
I build pretty complicated JS front-ends - which some would say requires more machine - but if I'm building interfaces that require a fast machine to run, I'm building bad, inefficient interfaces. The same applies for back-ends - if those processes won't work on a smaller machine with one dev user, they're going to be inefficient on a server with multiple real-world users.
My only gripe is C: space - there's just never enough - I can't see that it would cost that much more to put 256GB in what's essentially a tablet, and I'd happily pay the premium on that.
In short: I went for the happiness/convenience/form factor - I can shove my entire office into just about any bag, and go. Believe me, I'd pay considerably more for a 10", USB-powered laptop with a higher spec, but until someone releases one, I'm all good, ta.
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I suspect I'm a bit of an anomaly here, then, as I value portability over pretty much everything else. I'm a full-stack webdev, running Visual Studio, SQL Server, Adobe CS, and all the usual extra apps on a Surface Go (8GB RAM, 128GB C:, 1.61GHz Pentium), and you know what? It's not just tolerable; it's great - I can run all of the above at the same time with no issues.
What I get is portability - I use a dock with two monitors at my desk, but when I'm on the move I'm carrying very small kit that I can power with a mobile phone charger or even a battery pack.
In fact, the only time I've thought "I should be doing this on a more powerful machine" was rendering video - if I was doing that on a daily basis, I'd be wanting something with more beef.
I build pretty complicated JS front-ends - which some would say requires more machine - but if I'm building interfaces that require a fast machine to run, I'm building bad, inefficient interfaces. The same applies for back-ends - if those processes won't work on a smaller machine with one dev user, they're going to be inefficient on a server with multiple real-world users.
My only gripe is C: space - there's just never enough - I can't see that it would cost that much more to put 256GB in what's essentially a tablet, and I'd happily pay the premium on that.
In short: I went for the happiness/convenience/form factor - I can shove my entire office into just about any bag, and go. Believe me, I'd pay considerably more for a 10", USB-powered laptop with a higher spec, but until someone releases one, I'm all good, ta.