Looks as though I was beat to the punch...you're wrong. CS6 works well on the MBA, just fine. I use CS6---PS, Premier, Prelude and even play with After Effects and In Design often. Photoshop and Lightroom work excellent on my core i7 2011 MBA. It's a software issue...and most likely on Adobe's end with the new Haswell and/or Intel 5000 GPU.
J
It worked fine on my 2012 macbook air. It did run badly on my 2013. It was one of the reasons I returned it.