> They're underpowered, but if you're just SSHing into a remote box it's a good choice.
I feel like this concept doesn't get enough attention. You'll never get a laptop (that you actually want to carry) that has as much power as a server in a rack somewhere.
Thinking of the laptop as an ephemeral mobile thin client rather than an entire workstation lets you focus on finding a laptop that's comfortable to type on and not a pain to carry.
Trying to combine all of those requirements with a lot of computing power is much more difficult and expensive.
That's one of the main issues here.
Houses should be about having a place to live, not your largest financial asset. The selfish protectionism that comes from treating housing as an investment is why so many cities are so broken.
Bridge burning is never a good professional move, and the author goes out of his way to be rude about it. I'm not sure what positive effect they thought this would have.
Based on this post I can't say I'd want to work with the author either.
Ars seems to imply that there will be two M.2 ports that users can populate.
"Instead of adding more expensive graphics memory, why not let users add their own...The Radeon Pro SSG features two PCIe 3.0 M.2 slots for adding up to 1TB of NAND flash, "