Go find another machine with the same specs then subtract the cost from the air. If you'd pay that much for OS X then by all means get the MacBook Air. I person

Go find another machine with the same specs then subtract the cost from the air. If you'd pay that much for OS X then by all means get the MacBook Air. I personally like developing in Ubuntu more compared to OS X and Windows so I just use Windows with a virtualbox. This way I get the best of both worlds.