Offtopic: is the experience as good on Windows and Linux as on OSX? I'm planning on selling the MBP (too expensive to keep hardware up-to-date in third-world countries).
But to address the grandparent post a bit more directly, in my experience Android Studio runs great under both Windows and Linux, I've used it frequently on both with no complaints.
The instant run feature this new canary build has will be welcome since the deploy->run cycle has always been just slow enough to feel like a bottleneck to me, though I never faulted Android Studio for this.
"Works fine on Linux. The IDE is Java based and it packages all the necessary tools with it so it should work fine anywhere."
Eclipse fits all those criteria (IDE is Java based and it packages all the necessary tools with it). But I would argue Eclipse doesn't "work fine" anywhere, it is a bloated, slow piece of crap (equally, everywhere), thus those criteria are not really that useful in determining if something "works fine" somewhere.
IntelliJ is much better, very quick and responsive. It's actually a great demonstration of how Java apps don't NEED to be slow PsOS. I'm an iOS guy and didn't know about Android Studio, and the prospect of going back to Eclipse has kept me from even thinking about Android dev. Now I might well give it another try.