The Xcode compiler - clang/lldb - would be plenty fast on the MacBook, but the Xcode GUI would feel sluggish. I fault Apple for that, as I was using responsive

The Xcode compiler - clang/lldb - would be plenty fast on the MacBook, but the Xcode GUI would feel sluggish. I fault Apple for that, as I was using responsive IDEs on an 8 MHz Mac 512k in 1988, but Apple's developer tools people simply assume you're going to use a high-end machine. It pisses me off, but there it is. If you do go with the MacBook, I expect it would work a lot better to use BBEdit for your source code. I presently use TextWrangler for HTML/CSS, but havent really tried to use it for editing the source that I build with Xcode. Anything that's purely on the command-line would work really well on the MacBook. A real nice thing about today's SSDs is that the computers boot really really fast.