Running Adobe products on Macbook Air

Hello,
I am currently looking into purchasing a Macbook laptop which will be used for my home business as a Graphic Designer, primarily using Photoshop, Illustrator, Indesign and Dreamweaver, which I will be getting through Adobe's new Creative Cloud. I am a long time PC/Unix user and somewhat new to the Mac world, so pardon my ignorance.
I was strongly considering buying the new Macbook Pro Retina, however with such a big price tag, I decided to explore my options more and upon closer inspection I see that the technical specifications between the Retina and the Air do not appear to be drastically different? The main differences seem to be that the retina has
-NVIDIA GeForce GT 650M with 1GB of GDDR5 memory and automatic graphics switching)
and supports higher resolutions.
Portability is a big factor to me, the Air and the Retina have a nice weight, that is why I am less interested in the older Macbook Pros.
I am just wondering if there are any Graphic Designers out there who are doing their work on Macbook Airs? Have you encountered any problems? If so, what?
The difference in cost is quite a lot, this whole term of Macbook Pro is confusing me a bit, when I look at what is under the hood.
Any info, answers or advice is greatly appreciated.
Thank you.

I am a lot further after watching some videos on YouTube. Thanks for the hint.
But there are still some open questions which I could not fins an answer to.
For example if I can access my files from both of the operate systems.
When I run Windows do I have access f..e. to the photos on the Mac Partition? If this is not possible is there a solution of making a common partiion for files which are used on both systems?
For me it's an attempt using the Mac OS. Without the background of my Windows system I wouldn't try it.
There are too many programs I have to use which are not Mac compatible. But I am courious finding out about the Mac System as well to know what people talking about. With this having both systems on my machine I would be able to learn to know Mac without being without Windows.
I think I will definatley wait until the new MacBooks are coming out with stronger processors as I think for a dual system I can't have enough ower.
Thanks for your help.
Kattinka

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