How do I actually use a MacBook Air as a second computer

Hi all,
I'm very tempted by the latest MacBook Airs. I'm considering getting one for on the road and around the house, while keeping my iMac as my 'main' computer. However, I'm wondering, how this would actually work and was wondering if someone could give me some pointers or ideas for strategies to follow. Specifically, I'm wondering about the following things.
1. iPhoto: my main iPhoto library would be on my iMac. But if I was travelling, say, with only the MacBook Air and I wanted to transfer the photos from my camera to the MacBook Air and then delete the photos from my camera, once I returned home, how would I then transfer the photos (quickly and seamlessly if possible) to my iMac? Would I have to export them first to a shared drive, shared folder, or DropBox folder for example, and then import them onto my iMac's iPhoto library? Ideally, what I would want is some way to wireless sync (automatically) between my MacBook Air and iMac, a little like an iPhone sync.
2. iTunes: if I wanted to load my MacBook Air up with some music or say videos which currently reside on my iMac, how would I do that? Again would it have to be a manual export somehow?
Maybe some of these issues will be resolved once iCloud arrives. Want I want if at all possible to avoid is manually connecting and disconnecting hard drives — I've had bad experiences with that in the past when used with portable devices (corrupted databases, lost files, etc.)
For mail / safari / calendars etc., I'm fine (I already have a mobile me account and it works perfectly making it easy to work on different computers). DropBox and Evernote handle the rest so my main question really revolves around media.
Any help, pointers or just links to places where this has already been discussed, greatly appreciated!
Many thanks,
David

You are going to NEED  external hard drives regardless, period.
for data storage, data backups and HUGE media files, of pics / vids/ audio
There is no way around it,
As for the Air, I own or owned every Mac, its my favorite Apple product out of 6 Macs I currently own.

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