Here is what I do. For laptops I always want to have a good battery life. I don't need my laptop to be particularly powerful. I have a normal business laptop running Linux. I personally like Lenovo laptops because they play nice with Linux and I just love the keyboard.

I work remotely. We have our own compute server. But you could just as easily work on an AWS instance.

To me it makes more sense to use a laptop for what it is good at (Mobility) and a stationary server for what it is good at (Power). In the past I've tried to make compromises and it always is a lousy compromise.