Maybe it depends on the sort of coding you're doing? And also how you use the computer. I have both a Macbook Air and Macbook Retina - I have to say, I much mo

Maybe it depends on the sort of coding you're doing? And also how you use the computer. I have both a Macbook Air and Macbook Retina - I have to say, I much more enjoy the Retina - more RAM (16Gb) and it feels snappier to multi-task. I also tend to have a fair amount of browser tabs open (docs and stuff), so personal usage will influence things. The author is the CTO of MongoDB - which is written in C++ - so speculation - maybe waiting 3x longer for a compile (or whatever the multiple is) is annoying?