How to learn to program in 10 easy steps.

'MacBook Airs are really the standard for coders right now'

And that's all I read of that article. There is no world in which that is even remotely true, except maybe in the land of web development. Maybe.

Beyond that, it locks you out of .NET. Regardless of your opinion of .NET, it's accessible, it's high level, it's relatively simple, it's powerful, VS Express is totally servicable and it's everywhere. It's a pretty great language to pick up because you can do stuff with it.