For work, it makes sense to have a laptop. Portable, in case I need to be on the go. If I need extra computing power (which is rare), I can spin up cloud resources.
For my personal stuff - nothing will replace a fast HDD, big CPU, big GPU. Rock solid, quiet (if you have water cooling), powerful. If I need that power on the go (which I sometimes do), I can remote into it. I usually do personal travel with an HP Spectre x360, which is quite light with an OK screen and keyboard. My desktop is kinda old at this point, with an i7 4930K with 64gb DDR3 and a GTX 1060 3gb. I have far fewer issues with my desktop than my work provided laptop, and it's a lot older, and has suffered a lot more abuse.
It's amazing how long people have had performant productive systems with Ivy Bridge CPUs and Pascal based GPUs (NVidia 10xx parts)... If it wasn't for many of these older boards not having a TPM for Windows 11 support I'd have probably gotten years more still out of similar systems I own too. My similar Pascal equipped build has to have been one of the best value systems I've ever owned - I've bought two Macs in the same timeframe this box served as my gaming rig/desktop PC. Granted these were MacBooks so not fairest fight, but I've never had any computer last me as long as this PC build has.
My 1080ti has been one of best PC part investments I've made; if you ignore lack of Ray Tracing its still able to knock 60fps/1440p in just about anything, a god-send during these chip/GPU shortage times.
For work, it makes sense to have a laptop. Portable, in case I need to be on the go. If I need extra computing power (which is rare), I can spin up cloud resources.
For my personal stuff - nothing will replace a fast HDD, big CPU, big GPU. Rock solid, quiet (if you have water cooling), powerful. If I need that power on the go (which I sometimes do), I can remote into it. I usually do personal travel with an HP Spectre x360, which is quite light with an OK screen and keyboard. My desktop is kinda old at this point, with an i7 4930K with 64gb DDR3 and a GTX 1060 3gb. I have far fewer issues with my desktop than my work provided laptop, and it's a lot older, and has suffered a lot more abuse.