Definitely agree with T440 (I have the T440s) w/ 9 cell battery especially if your commute to and from work is large. Macbook Pro + VMFusion + VS results in < 2

Definitely agree with T440 (I have the T440s) w/ 9 cell battery especially if your commute to and from work is large. Macbook Pro + VMFusion + VS results in < 2 hours battery life. It's much better to do native Windows 8.1 and then VMware OSX. You'll get 8-10 hours battery life (under load, else 16 hours), touch screen Windows 8, touch screen OSX/iOS simulator, touch screen Android simulator and touch screen Windows 8 Phone simulator - concurrently all at the same time. This is my setup for cross-platform mobile dev using Xamarin. There's something special about commuting on the train, doing iOS/Droid/WP8 development in Visual Studio without being chained to a physical mac-mini or multiple computers.