Anything lightweight that has a long battery life is good. The Dev work can be in the cloud or datacenter in a tmux or screen session. Lightweight so you can put it in a small bag next to you on the beach whilst sipping your martini.
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My preference is the opposite. Something big that fits 32 GB+ of RAM; for the work I do, I need it. Other than the monster laptop and the power brick, I travel super-light. (For instance, if I travel to a big city I will not pack a lot of underwear and socks because I will buy some at Niketown)
It is not always practical to move big data sets to and from the servers a lot. I think my next dev machine is going to be a monster desktop machine, however, because the latest GPU is table stakes for neural network work.