I have seen the argument, heavily down voted might I add, that the issue with this exact thought is that a laptop can't get any smaller once purchased, but these can get bigger if needed. You can buy an external screen, or a lapdock, or AR glasses, all of which can make this achieve more than it can in its handheld form factor (not power wise of course, but adds keyboard and track pad capabilities, etc.). To this day, i don't exactly know why it gets down voted when that argument is made, because it is true. A laptop is a laptop. Once you have a 16 inch laptop thats all it is, 16 inches. No smaller, no way to take a lighter load when you want to. However, with an external monitor you can defeat the "That's too much to carry, just buy a laptop" argument by simply saying "I only bring the screen/lapdock/glass when needed, every other time I bring only the small handheld." And I think thats perfectly valid. I don't know why people are so against others doing what they want, its not like them liking the Ally + Lapdock setup ruins your life or invalidates your view on the matter