[pashields]

When I travel or feel like hacking somewhere besides my desk, I work on an 11" air with an i7. The screen size is tight if you spend a lot of time in IDEs (for me, eclipse and xcode). When I'm able to work in emacs, I have more than enough room.

The only other thing really worth considering is RAM. If you are a web developer I suspect this isn't too much of an issue. I find that running xcode and eclipse together produces some swapping.

Surprisingly, I noticed a ton of airs at strange loop earlier this week, so they seem to be doing ok with hacker crowd.

[Tycho]

Any heat or battery problems with the i7?

[pashields]

Battery doesn't last nearly as long (only about 3 hours of real work). It also runs hotter, but that hasn't been a problem.