>There are certain features which Web Designers will be looking for, including: Value for money, speed, Good screen size/resolution, battery life and portability.

I think it's safe to say that everyone in the market for a new laptop will be looking for these qualities.

The article doesn't even explain why these choices would be a good fit for a web designer. It's as if the author just made a list of general-purpose laptops and picked a random profession out of a hat to use for the title.

This article screams linkbait. "If you are a web designer, you have to have good equipment in order for you to design a good website." in particular irks me. From my experience, anything that can run vim (virtually every computer ever) is enough for web development.

Yep. Linkbait.

Because if they were talking about graphic designer types, it would have been a list of one.

I run Windows in a VM on a Macbook Pro Retina because I use Visual Studio for development. The second machine on the list is passible. The rest are a random joke of every form factor out there.

Have you seen this? http://xamarin.com/studio.

I traded my VM + VS in for that a few months ago, makes a huge difference on my Air. No Resharper but unfortunately.