Brilliant folks! Thanks. I definitely wanted the opinion of pro travelers.

It'll be my first mac so that's all aside, but I think I'm ready to make that plunge (not liking windows 8). I had a dell netbook and loved it, even with the small keyboard, but the specs just weren't good enough to really use it as any kind of non-portable PC, seems like these Macbooks are plenty good around the house and whatnot too so my last thing was the form factor vs dense aircrafts.

First ever TPAC flight coming up in Feb and I can't trust that the ANA avod will keep me satisfied haha

Maybe another follow up question as a previous poster kinda brought it to mind.

I've got the iPhone, iPad...not really planning on the watch but do you find having your computer be a mac makes your iLife any easier? Mine isn't hard, but I do sync my iPhone/iPad both on 2-3 different PCs depending on WHAT I'm syncing. Might be my terrible setup but I found that if I sync everything off 1 pc inevitably I lose stuff.