How are you getting on with that? I do similar stuff, and love the idea of just docking in a tablet rather than a full laptop. I assume battery drops pretty quickly while running VMs?
I absolutely love it! I now use it over my rather powerful i7 laptop (24GB RAM, etc) and haven't noticed any performance bottlenecks as of yet (the SSD really helps with that). Best of all, it's dead quiet and doesn't really get that hot (unless you play games).
I do love however that my laptop bag has gone from weight a tonne to something I can lift with my little finger. The bonus is the wacom pen, touch input and well, it having the potential of a tablet.
Edit: You can get quite a few hours out of it battery wise. But I generally have it plugged in when I'm doing real development work.
2 x 1920x1080 monitors (one via displaylink, other via USB) + Surface Pro screen
Windows 8.1
Virtual Box running:
- Ubuntu
- Apache or Nginx (depending on project)
- PHP or Node.js (depending on project)
- MySQL, MongoDB, Redis (depending on project)
- Samba network share
PhpStorm (running in Windows to Samba) & vi in Ubuntu
MySQL Workbench & MongoVue
Node with Less compiler
Bitbucket
TortoiseGit
Amazon EC2, S3 & RDS
Putty
Spotify
Experimenting with Cloud 9 for Node & PHP projects
If there was one thing I would change, it's hiring someone and delegating. I'm the bottleneck now, not my tools.