[jasonrhaas]

The new Macbook Air is now the go-to (Mac) laptop for developers. If I were to get a new Macbook today, I would get the Air. It's now the only laptop without the touchbar, it has a Retina display, and you can get it with 16 GB of RAM. I see no reason to get a Macbook Pro at this point. Its more expensive than the air, heavier, has the awful touchbar, and 2 unnecessary USB-C ports (I've never needed more than two).

[Traster]

For me, the much lower TDP of the air series really limits its power. If you want to do a decent amount of computation actually on the machine then the 15 inch pro is much more compelling.

[acchow]

13-inch MBP now has quad cores!

[noja]

dual core versus quad core...