Re: 100% cloud
No "workstation" class desktop can be cooled as a tower workstation. Nor you can plug as much RAM into it easily. Nor you can have more than one graphic card (but the integrated one). Local disks on NVMe connections are still faster than external disks. There is also the issue of the 10Gb/s connection to the servers in the local datacenter (just below my office).
Nor my company is going to buy me four monitors for home, nor I wish to carry them back and forth from the office.
Those laptops are fine when you need power outside the office but are not a full replacement of a full workstation. As said, I can work outside, the office, with less resources available. For a while, to avoid putting my and others0 lives at risk is fine.
I know my needs are not average, just pointing out some people have needs that cannot be easily fulfilled everywhere.
Biting the hand that feeds IT
