InDesign on MacBook Air or on 2 GB RAM on laptop?

Having broken my shoulder, I am no longer able to carry half the weight I once could.
So even my tiny MacBook Pro 13 is too much for me.
Anyone have experience running ID as well as PSD, Flash, AI, Acrobat, and some other CS5 programs on a MacBook Air or a laptop with only 2 GBs of RAM?
This wouldn't be for "real work" just 72 ppi demo and classes.
But I don't want to switch to Windows (thanks anyway).

The MacBook Air is designed to be used wirelessly, hence the name. It is by definition a second Mac and was never intended to be someone's only computer.
DVD and Ethernet ports on my laptop have been used fewer times than I have fingers. Very few laptops have enough batteries to play a whole DVD without draining 50% of their battery life.
If you do have an optical drive and actually and use your laptop as your primary computer the OptiBay is a better use of that slot. Turns your internal optical drive into an external and puts a hard drive where your useless, slow optical drive used to be.
http://www.mcetech.com/optibay/index.html
As for the 2gb RAM, that won't change until they refresh them. The 16 RAM chips are soldered in and likely the maximum density for the space. The 2 gigabit DRAM chips are thicker than what can be accommodated in the Air due to its thinness. I think the standard when they designed the Air was 50nm and they are down to 30nm, but its hard to tell whether Apple would use them as the 2nd gen Air was a major price decrease from the first offering.
http://www.ifixit.com/Teardown/MacBook-Air-Teardown/598/3

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Greetings!
My MacBook Air came with 4 GB RAM. How much would it cost to upgrade it to 8 GB RAM?
I am a multitasking musician who wants to maximize what I have.
Thanks folks!

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>Add this to the long list of other important things they have ripped out of the Air machine to make it sexy and light.
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