Love my 13" MBA (2nd gen) with 2GB. Gave up a $4K 15" MBP with 8GB and SSD for it, and haven't regretted the decision once in 3 months or so.
MBA is much quieter (fan rarely runs, when it does it's much quieter), way more comfy on the lap or in bed, much cooler, and has a strikingly better display (brighter, crisper, slightly smaller size no big deal since rez the same).
I work in a Rails + MongoDB stack plus do a lot of design, so I'll routinely have RubyMine, Photoshop, Illustrator, mongod, mongrels, 3 browsers, and a few dozen browser tabs open at once.
If I had to make the purchase again, I'd get the 4GB model, since it's RAM that usually limits me, even though the swapping is fast with SSD.
Miss the Firewire occasionally since I like to use a Duet to lay down guitar tracks in Logic, but will probably get a dedicated iMac for the studio soon.
MBA is much quieter (fan rarely runs, when it does it's much quieter), way more comfy on the lap or in bed, much cooler, and has a strikingly better display (brighter, crisper, slightly smaller size no big deal since rez the same).
I work in a Rails + MongoDB stack plus do a lot of design, so I'll routinely have RubyMine, Photoshop, Illustrator, mongod, mongrels, 3 browsers, and a few dozen browser tabs open at once.
If I had to make the purchase again, I'd get the 4GB model, since it's RAM that usually limits me, even though the swapping is fast with SSD.
Miss the Firewire occasionally since I like to use a Duet to lay down guitar tracks in Logic, but will probably get a dedicated iMac for the studio soon.