I have had two laptops for most of the twenty years: a personal laptop and a work laptop.  Before I owned my own company that was a question of the company’s I worked for policies.  While I had my own company it was about living by the same rules that applied to everyone else in the company (I’m a big fan of dogfooding anything I do).  Now that I’m on the individual consulting/developer bandwagon I’m in the same boat.  I have a pretty decent System76 Linux laptop that’s a couple years old but pretty bulky.  I have a positively ancient 2011 MacBook Air.  Disk space and speed wise it is fine.  Memory wise at 4 GB it’s starting to get a little cramped if I have too many Google Drive tabs open and the like.  Processor wise though it is a dog.  It’s at the point now where some sites like Facebook and Gmail can take tens of seconds to complete rendering.  At least they allow interactions while they finish parsing their JavaScript etc.

Life is actually a very short finite thing.  Each day there are only so many waking hours of which one can only pour in so much energy.  Do you decide to pour it all into useful work, spending time with family, spending time doing nothing but watching television or playing games, or whatever.  The bottom line is that we have to decide how we want to expend that in a way that will make us as contented as we can be.  We will miss the mark obviously but that doesn’t mean that one has to engage in behaviors that they know are moving opposite that direction.