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Try compiling any _large_ project on your machine. Say, Webkit. Come back and tell me how much fun that was :)

Kidding aside, if you have to dig into large-scale projects or heavy computational stuff, a laptop is underpowered. Thankfully, not everybody needs to do that.

But even for day-to-day work - how can you live with 15" of screen real estate? Without an ergo keyboard?



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