[drivebyacct2]

Linux Libvirt on the server, Linux libvirt on the Macbook Air. You can use SPICE to connect to the server VMs. All built in, no setup, all as easy as VMWare or the like would be. I'm using that with Cinnamon on Ubuntu 12.10 and I'm in bliss.

Also, I think you will be very very very hard pressed to find anyone who owns a Macbook air who would tell you to get anything else. People who don't own them underestimate them and they're not anywhere near as underpowered as people act like.

[kaolinite]

As someone who recently bought a Macbook Air, I really wish I'd spent a bit more and gotten a retina MBP. I'm planning to get a 27" iMac soon because I'm sick of the small screen.