Im a grade 12 student who is perusing computer science career. Is should i invest in a macbook or buy a casual windows laptop, which one. You can get a PC that's as powerful as a private jet for half the price as a Mac. Here's a computer build that I'm saving up for. Solved Windows vs Mac in video editing. Live Science.
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Hey guys I'm not sure if this is the right place to post this because this isn't a laptop suggestion post, but I was told from a few people since mac is based around a unix system like Linux, its way better to code on a MacBook, however is it actually worth moving over to a MacBook, for my cs degree I'd anyways get a hp spectre 13 ($1440) or 15 ($1633) compared to a MacBook for ($1970), I can technically shell out the extra money if coding on a mac makes it easier (for compiling or whatever). I'm sorry if this question was already repeated but I'd really like to know if it's worth shelling out the extra cash! Thanks a lot in advance! Doesn't matter that much. You will likely need Linux regardless if you are going for hardcore CS stuff, but in both cases, unless you doing graduate level stuff, you can just download VirtualBox and run Linux in a VM, then learn to use the cloud. Your undergrad CS projects aren't going to tax a modern PC sufficiently for it to matter.
I work in tech, and my home machine is 5 years old, and still sufficient for most development, and I can push most heavy lifting to the cloud. Historically, OSX/MacOS was better choice cause it's Unix. There are a lot of UNIX/server software that does not run on Windows very well. However with the advent of WSL and Docker, you don't lose that much these days. While the reverse is true as well, as in there are windows-only software - i.e.
You cannot run Notepad on Mac/Linux - but none of those Windows-only software are critical in the general software industry. (Only exception maybe gaming industry, which is somewhat Windows-centric).