That's not really true though, and I know this from personal experience in the company that I work for. We have a fairly large development team all using MacBo

That's not really true though, and I know this from personal experience in the company that I work for. We have a fairly large development team all using MacBook Air, the previous version. It's a little workhorse, but you gotta know its limitations. It struggles a little with Java development (i.e. running NetBeans or IntelliJ), but the new version (i.e. 2019 model) will do that just fine.