laptops also equal VPN access and work-from-home.<p>Depending how cheap your employer is you may not get both a desktop and a laptop.  I had no desktop from 00 to 05 so that some beancounter could get a bonus for not &quot;wasting&quot; a tiny fraction of our total salary on giving my team both a laptop and a desktop.  I don&#x27;t miss that place, but most of the world works under conditions like that.<p>So desktops are for people who absolutely cannot ever be imagined to work from home, for practical or primate dominance reasons.  That&#x27;s a rapidly shrinking segment of the employment population.<p>Ironically by plugging a large display and decent mechanical keyboard into a &quot;laptop&quot; we&#x27;re just reimplementing desktops the hard and expensive way.