I've always been a real screen real estate whore. I currently run a dual 30" setup at home and always thought I could never go smaller. Around a month ago, I

I've always been a real screen real estate whore. I currently run a dual 30" setup at home and always thought I could never go smaller. Around a month ago, I started using an 11" Macbook air as I was travelling a lot, and I must say, I'm absolutely blown away at how productive I have been for development work. With a tabbed text editor (ST2), browser, and terminal combined with Lion full screen & OSX spaces, everything is so nice and compact and you can switch around in less time than it takes to turn your head across to the other side of a monitor. I seem to be hitting flow very easily and have been doing some great work since I started using this laptop. Of course, being able to take my primary machine with me everywhere I go is also a real bonus. I'm getting some great work done on my side projects on my commute or on flights, and am quickly able to dial in to customer sites etc without being compromised in any way. I'd recommend that anyone give this a go. I'm definitely going to keep trying to minimise and simplify my tools after this experience.