[ryanhuff]

If you don't mind me asking, what kind of development do you typically do on your MBA?

I have a 15" MBP, and considered a MBA, but I am worried that having available real estate a tad smaller would be a detriment, even with the high resolution.

[jimmyhwang]

I have a 15" MBP and I've played around with the 13" MBA and I will say that the real estate issue isn't noticeable. Unless you have difficultly in reading smaller icons and fonts, having the same resolution made very little difference to me.

I will also note that the keyboard feels better on the MBA and the weight is a SIZEABLE difference (~3lbs vs. 5.5lbs).

The downside of course is if for some reason you need better specs, the MBA is only an i5 and maxes out at 4GB of RAM.

[alf]

I do mostly C and Python in Emacs, but have recently switched to using Emacs in a full screen terminal (iTerm). It works pretty well, and is the only environment I can make consistent across every platform that I use. All I need is an terminal and an SSH client :)