I'm in the market for a mobile workstation laptop!
I’m a big fan of a high res display for coding and real work. Anything smaller than 1080 and I find myself feeling cramped when reading or working with code. Mainstream laptops seem to be all 1366x768 or 1440x900 or similar and 1080 displays tend to be found only on larger beefier workstation or gaming class laptops. Those are fine for carting around the office, but if you need to take it mobile, for example to a conference or a trade show, you’ll find yourself struggling a bit.
At the last conference I attended I brought my 10lb laptop but only as my “plan B”. I left it in my hotel room in case my “plan A” option didn’t test well. My “plan A” was to try to use an iPad as my main device while at the show.
This meant that I wasn’t able to open up my development environment if I wanted to try something out, but I could check email, browse, and take notes with relative ease without struggling at times to move my equipment around.
This was fine most of the time, but I really wanted to be able to crack open my laptop and try some things out while at the conference and I wasn’t able to.