What does everyone use as their primary development laptop?<p>I'm in the market looking for a new laptop that would be smaller than 15" and is geared towards development above anything else. Lightweight and fast is the key.<p>My IDE of choice right now is Visual Studio 2012 and I don't plan on doing any gaming on it. Anywhere <= $1000 is ideal with SSD/1920x1080 (at least). No DVD drive.<p>Any suggestions?
Right now, because I'm spending a lot of time flying across the continent, my dev laptop is a maxed out 11" MBA. It's a little light on RAM (only 8GB) and the screen, while a decent PPI, is too small. But I plug it into a Thunderbolt display and bam, it's plenty enough for day to day work.<p>Of course, it was a lot more than $1000.