Amazon WorkSpaces VDI could be just what the doctor ordered

I recently bought a new MacBook Pro, and I had to buy the biggest one available because I needed the horsepower for development. What I would actually like to do is have a slimmer, lighter, laptop, and just dial into a server in the cloud whenever I need development horsepower.

(Not to mention the cost and/or risk of losing or breaking the thing, which always worries me.)

Two years ago I tried doing this with an iPad. I rented a server from AWS, put Visual Studio on it and tried accessing it ov...