Thanks everyone it seems to be more of a linux problem than something inherent with my win ultra book. I also have a 2012 mba and it looks just fine to me. To be honest the only reason i was going to go the pro route was because of the option to get 16GB Ram. Maybe i'll just go the air route again but this time instead opt for 8GB of ram.
Oh as an aside i was trying to use Lubuntu (LXDE).