Let's say you are developing a million user social or dating site. While you need this to test and tweak with, the hard core system is likely to be in a rack space.
For me the 1000 buck air missed one key item. The disk space is too small. Read about that XPS 13 at http://www.cnet.com/forums/discussions/which-ultrabook-to-buy-for-college/ and for heavy app work, I'm back to core i7 models.
I'm going to start learning web design, so I would like if someone would suggest me a suitable laptop and the budget would be at maximum $1000.
Also, would a Apple MacBook Air be suitable?

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