Macbook Air Final Cut Pro X

Will  Final Cut Pro X run reasonably well on new high-end Macbook Air--max CPU, RAM, and SSD? 
Or with the demise of the 17", am I doomed to 15" with discrete graphic cards.  For my needs, 15" is worst of both worlds--not portable, not enough screen.
Thanks.

I also have last year's top model.  As far as running FCPX goes, it's fine, although when transcoding it tends to get a bit hot.  Two tricks to making it work well are (1) turn off rendering, and (2) select "better performace" over "higher quality" for playback.  The screen is really too small for any long bouts of editing IMO,  but this is all I have, so I suck it up.
I outgrew the 256 GB storage rather quickly, so I have invested in a dual 2TB (RAID1) thunderbolt HD recently which seems to be working well so far.
Hope this helps.

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