The Air is significantly underperformant relative to all the other portables. Its value proposition for you as a customer is clearly the form factor and design. Everything else is compromised in favor of achieving that one goal. I wouldn't waste the money on it as a dev machine.
by Ben — Jan 26
See the engadget benchmarks here:
http://www.engadget.com/2008/01/24/first-benchmarks-macbook-air-is-the-slowest-apple-machine-on-th/
The Air is significantly underperformant relative to all the other portables. Its value proposition for you as a customer is clearly the form factor and design. Everything else is compromised in favor of achieving that one goal. I wouldn't waste the money on it as a dev machine.