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After owning a MBA for over a month now, I think it is the finest laptop on the planet.
Having owned a MacBook Pro for a couple of months now, I'd say it's not far behind.
The design and build quality is incredible, and is easily the most robust-feeling laptop I've ever used or seen. It also comes in a 17" model. SSD is an option, albeit an expensive one.
I certainly wouldn't buy a Mac to wipe it for Linux, when you could get other laptops for half the price, or less (if nowhere near as nice looking and robust).
For virtualisation I use VMware Fusion. It has a great feature called "Unity", anomg others (best read about it from their website).
And of course OS X is Unix-based. One key-press and you're in a shell.
Can't beat that