Depends on how you work. Its very portable. While that means the screen is small, you typically have it plugged into an external monitor when you are at a desk.

Depends on how you work. Its very portable. While that means the screen is small, you typically have it plugged into an external monitor when you are at a desk. The processing speed is quite good. Any disk intensive operations, like compiling, are fast because of the SSD speed. The raw cpu may not be as fast as the Pro, but in practice the Airs seem faster than the specs would suggest.