Plus I can toss it in my gun safe when ever I’m out...
I thought I was the only one who did that.
Using a nice Dell Covet w/16GB of RAM on an i7. The 256GB SSD and I shoehorned in 1 Terabyte for media storage. The desktops it replaced cuts down my cooling and electricity bills while being much quieter and less conspicuous. Only use the desktops when I need lots of cores all day to crunch through machine learning algorithms. I just don't trust the notebook cooling system when running all eight cores at 100% for hours on end.
I have been using Raptor drives in RAID configurations on desktops for ages and the bang for the buck with desktops have always been much greater than notebooks. But now, the notebook hardware is powerful enough, particularly with the SSD where desktops are obsolete.
Is why God made 1U horsey blade servers and the X11 mafia created remote screens.
I do all the heavy lifting on remote servers with ssh -X i.p.a.d.d.r.e::0(insert IPv6 stuff as required for your OS) and the display on the laptop in front of me. Much easier when you own the network, but do-able, in most situations.
/johnny