Apart from the missing ESC (yes I am too a VI/M user) key I am not sure what else do you want from a mobile computer - apart from better battery of course and more energy efficiency.
I do stuff on Unreal occasionally and for that I have a dedicated computer that is good enough to handle the IDE. Can I run this on MacPro from 2013 - sure - but the experience is not great and I doubt there is any laptop out there that will ever be good enough in terms of energy efficiency, battery life and portability to handle Unreal in all of its glory.
Yes the new MacPros are on par with the last generation but not so much. We have pretty performant hardware that sits mostly underutilized. As soon as you start pumping code on a low-performant microcontroller you will know what I mean. Previous generation of programmers were doing exactly this - making the best of the hardware that was available to them.
I do stuff on Unreal occasionally and for that I have a dedicated computer that is good enough to handle the IDE. Can I run this on MacPro from 2013 - sure - but the experience is not great and I doubt there is any laptop out there that will ever be good enough in terms of energy efficiency, battery life and portability to handle Unreal in all of its glory.
Yes the new MacPros are on par with the last generation but not so much. We have pretty performant hardware that sits mostly underutilized. As soon as you start pumping code on a low-performant microcontroller you will know what I mean. Previous generation of programmers were doing exactly this - making the best of the hardware that was available to them.