Give me a 10-12 inch laptop and a dock. I had some Dell ones with battery which would last donkey years!

I do a lot of meetings, all our meeting rooms I've set up with remote connections to TV / projector and single USB which connects to meeting room camera etc.

I've been doing this type of job for almost 20 years, laptops are great but you need to play to their strengths and instead of trying to do it all with some 17 inch behemoth, get a good dock setup.