No, I wanted to try something radical and crazy and new. Frankly, I expected to be back on my MacBook by now. This has been as much a surprise to me as anyone!

I tried out an iPad app called Koder, it was nice but still lacked some things.

Your post has got me wondering about Vim again.. :) Making the switch to Sublime Text has got me appreciating a more shell-like interface for some things.

Have you ever found yourself wanting to code and not have an internet connection? I think that's a pretty rare scenario, I'm rarely offline.

I haven't wanted to code offline for months. Maybe if I flew for more than two hours I'd miss it. Even the trains have wifi in Germany.

The few times I have wanted to code offline, I've also wanted to look something up >.<

Haha, that's really true. I rarely code offline, maybe it's just another umbilical cord that we should be examining.

Between having tethering and generally ubiquitous tethering, we should be good.

I think I want to try getting into VIM again. Is there a good resource site you like, where I can find a decent guide and some pointers on where to find some language dictionaries? Totally off topic but I'd appreciate it.

I recommend just running "vimtutor" in terminal once you've installed Vim. It's the best introduction. Far better than the online tutorials that sometimes pop up on HN.

Once I got the basics down (15 minutes in vimtutor), I noticed enough productivity gains to use it immediately for note taking and scripting. Then I just decided to jump in and use it for a real project. I learn new hotkeys, plugins, and config tricks every week and I just feel my productivity inch its way up and up.

Vim on my 11" Air is excellent. SSD is nice and fast, and I wonder if the total weight is less than the ipad+bluetooth keyboard.

Nope, Ipad: 601 g (613 g for 3G), 11" Macbook Air: 1080 g, I was unable to find the keyboard's weight but it can't be 400 g.

According to Amazon the keyboard weight is 522g.

http://www.amazon.co.uk/Apple-MB167B-A-Wireless-Keyboard/dp/...

Making the Macbook Air 11" the lighter option.

That is the boxed weight for shipping.

I have the wireless keyboard (the older three-AA revision) and it's comparatively lighter than my 7" Tab, which is 380 g.

edit: Charlie Stross says 325 g for a four-AA revision in http://www.antipope.org/charlie/blog-static/2010/05/ipad-wri.... Macworld says 323 g in http://www.macworld.com/article/150600/2010/04/ipadwhichkeyb...

My Apple wireless keyboard (model A1314) has 2 AAs, have there really been that many revisions?

I don't personally recall the four-AA revision. Wikipedia links to Apple's press release http://www.apple.com/pr/library/2003/09/16Apple-Introduces-W... which confirms four AAs.

My keyboard, bought in November 2008, part number MB167LL/A, definitely takes three.

Current revision available on Apple's website is MC184LL/B and that one is well known to only require two.