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Just out of sheer curiosity, what is the type of the development work you mentioned in the article? Reason I'm asking is that while perhaps it cannot (conveniently) be done on Windows (OS on Lenovo), I'm wondering why OSX cannot be used as a development platform?

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We're targeting Debian, so running that (in a VM) on a 4GB MBA is not pleasant. Borderline unusable, sometimes. That's why I'd have preferred an ultraportable with either more RAM or the ability to run Debian natively on. Turns out, I found none so far.

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