[fatjokes]

I have this set up and I love it. I didn't do this intentionally at first. I'm a PhD student, so I have a powerful (well, was powerful at the time of purchase) desktop in my office. I use to carry around a hulking laptop (desktop replacement, basically) until one day I got a grant to buy a Mac Air.

I've never looked back.

Thanks to git, SSH, screen and Dropbox, syncing is super easy.

Once in awhile, it is a bit annoying when I need to process some large files and I'm on a plane or something. Then the slowness of the Mac Air kinda shows. But otherwise, it's perfect. It's also ideal since I can push jobs to my desktop and use my Mac for personal stuff.