a laptop for web designer/developer

I highly recommend the macbook air, the latest generation because it has 12 hour battery life. nuff said. lol you can look up tech specs on apple.

Personally, I'm rocking a 13" MacBook Pro from 2009. I love the damn thing. I'm still getting 4-6 hour of battery life (was over 8 hours when new). I have installed on it Adobe CS5 Master Edition, Rhino 3D for Mac, Blender, and some other editing and software and it runs it perfectly.

The biggest downside is it only has a 250 GB hard drive, luckily external drives are cheap and plentiful. If you have the coin to spend, I personally find working on a Mac, especially in any design related workflow is a much more pleasurable experience. I also do not have nearly the problems with the computer slowing down as I do with PC's. Many times a simple restart makes a noticeable difference in the computers speed. Just overall a huge fan.

My work computer is a PC, and I also own a PC desktop at home. They do the job, for less money, but feel more clunky and I feel less productive.

Just my feelings, agree or disagree.

macbook air is configurable to 8GB of ram, but if you really want more power, you can get the macbook pro there's a new one that just came out, with a longer battery life to up to 9 hours. But in my opinion, the macbook air handles everything just fine, because it has the i7 processor and flash storage space, with pretty decent graphics, I can actually play Starcraft2 on my macbook air surprisingly. But of course, this is my bias opinion since I have one. lol.

I am facing this question. I actually work at MS but am soon to be leaving. MS is pretty liberal when it comes to your work PC (full admin rights etc) and they don't really care if you do personal stuff on it. So my main PC for Treehouse etc is my work PC which is a Lenovo Carbon Touch which is actually pretty nice.

I really like the idea of the MacBook Air but to get the spec I want you are looking at £1500 (I am in the UK) which seems a lot of money to me.

Being an MS employee I also use OneNote pretty extensively (like every day) and I dread the thought of not being able to access all my notes. I know I could run Bootcamp on the MacBook Air and therefore Office or even put a VM on it and run Windows an Office this way. Does anyone have any experience of this in relation to performance?