I've been using the first-gen MacBook Air as my primary machine from around when it was released to about a week ago when its hard drive died. A bit slow at tim

I've been using the first-gen MacBook Air as my primary machine from around when it was released to about a week ago when its hard drive died. A bit slow at times, but the ease of carrying it compensates for that easily. And I've understood the SSDs on the new ones fix the speed issue. Depends of course on what kind of tools you expect to use. I'm a web developer working on the PHP stack (even using a PHP-based app server instead of Apache), so I just need a simple Ubuntu desktop with a text editor, terminal and a browser.