As far I know I wouldn't recommend you to buy an Air version if you're a programmer, I mean I think that Air version is like a LITE version of a macbook, I bought the last macbook pro lately(yes, the one with the touch bar), and until now I felt very comfortable with it, the SO(High Sierra) is very stable and the hardware have pretty much nothing wrong(except for a little detail with the battery, since when you're programming for iOS for example, and therefore you have to keep the XCode opened, seems like the macbook lose energy quicker than usual).
IMHO if you have the money, and you wanna make a great inversion, I'd recommend you to buy a macbook pro with touch bar, however, if you are running low on cash, macbook either 2015 or 2016 version would do the trick for you.
As far I know I wouldn't recommend you to buy an Air version if you're a programmer, I mean I think that Air version is like a LITE version of a macbook, I bought the last macbook pro lately(yes, the one with the touch bar), and until now I felt very comfortable with it, the SO(High Sierra) is very stable and the hardware have pretty much nothing wrong(except for a little detail with the battery, since when you're programming for iOS for example, and therefore you have to keep the XCode opened, seems like the macbook lose energy quicker than usual).
IMHO if you have the money, and you wanna make a great inversion, I'd recommend you to buy a macbook pro with touch bar, however, if you are running low on cash, macbook either 2015 or 2016 version would do the trick for you.
Hope I could help you.
Regards.
How about 2014 (Apple MacBook Pro 11,2/i7 4770HQ/16GB Ram/256GB SSD/15"). I found it for £860
Sounds like a good offer, what about the notebook state ? How many charge cycles got ?
Is graded as B (if that's what you mean)