[LeafyGreenbriar]

I've used the Air as a full-time development machine in the past. It can be great if it fits how you write code. I write code in emacs or vim, so I would run that in a fullscreen terminal window under tmux, which allowed me to quickly switch between my editor and various zsh prompts.

I'd also have Chrome open in another fullscreen window, and use the four finger swipe gesture to navigate between the two.

For other apps I'd use hotkey combinations and Alfred to do as much navigation as possible to minimize using the cursor.

The biggest downside of the setup was when I needed to use a web page or video for reference while coding, which I basically couldn't do. I know a lot of coders like to have two monitors up so they can have a browser visible at the same time they are working in their editor, and none of them could understand how I could use the 11 for my main machine.

The resolution was a bit constrained for working in an IDE with a lot of information in frames, so it isn't idea, at least for me, of using IntelliJ or similar programs.

And that beings said, what really ended up killing it for me, is that the screen resolution is fairly high for the display size, or at least I thought so. Basically, type wound up being just a little smaller than I was comfortable with, and making it larger did leave me with too little space on the screen.