Did you ever try to write code on a phone? Or tablet? Wtf are you even talking about. I often work at clients' companies. Hauling 15" 3kg machine and asking them for power cord because my battery died would be fucking retarded.
Short answer: databases. If it's cpu bound, then queries and code are bad. If it's IO bound, then it's disk that is bad.
And yes it's much better than marginally better cpu. But even if it had potato instead of cpu it'd still be better because it has all day charge. Do you seriously not get it?
eeh and I promised myself to not reply to your idiotic, ignorant posts but

Get it to your thick skull: laptops with solid battery, screen, ssd, cpu and all in one package cost a lot, 1200, 1500 or even more. No matter what brand. Just because you only need $300 acer to play minecraft doesn't mean everyone has that low kind of needs.
This post was edited by nuvo on Apr 6 2017 07:56am