My experience right now - I had to take a one month unpaid leave from work to fly to another country to deal with some legal bullshit which spans over a month. I'm in an old house that doesn't have a PC and I'm with my old Huawei MateBook D14 from 2020 with 8GB of soldered RAM. It's a pain and I'd be very happy to have a more powerful laptop with more RAM and bigger screen than shitty small 14". Laptops are useful. I'm limited by technology I have here.