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Sniper Mike
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Location: Detroit
Registered: 7/23/2006 Warnings: 0

My computer is for all of college and when you are a Computer Science major you need a computer that can handle all the work you would be doing and I got a good deal on it.

About your ps3, it is just for you to play games. I think there might be a game out there that can help you learn how to maintain your fields and farming equipment. See with your ps3 you might get points for how much corn you collect.

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byerspc
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Location: South Bend, IN
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hmm I majored in CS...graduate even.
I didn't use a laptop once for the class...they had us use the computer labs at school for everything....programmed mainly in unix anyway.
Any good CS program will avoid doing UIs at all costs.
Even visual studio 2008 does not need a killer machine...you running oracle or something on that laptop :-)
Just teasing...I am glad you got a machine that you like. I code on my mac in a VM and it works great for me but not everyone would like that.
In fact, when I took my web app cert class a couple weeks ago all the coding we did was on vms. (they offered me a teaching job too...funny)

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cds0528
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Sniper Mike wrote:

About your ps3, it is just for you to play games. I think there might be a game out there that can help you learn how to maintain your fields and farming equipment. See with your ps3 you might get points for how much corn you collect.

hahahaha...

byers, do you have any performance issues or does it run fine? in other words, is coding on a mac any weaker than on an equally-built pc?

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byerspc
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if you did bootcamp it would be totally the same since the components in a mac are really the same as what you can get in a regular notebook except for the proprietary motherboard and wireless card....i think most of the rest is pretty standard stuff.
When I am in the VM I don't really notice any differences from my machine at work. You control how much memory you allocate to your VM etc. My brother always gives his at least a gig...I think with the new macbook pro he gives it 2 gig. The biggest problems I have found with VMs is graphics acceleration..that is true for parallels and virtual pc. Since there is a virtual layer the OS in the VM doesn't have direct access to the graphics card etc.
I haven't played with the mac book pro with discrete to see how the vm works on that but I doubt it is really any better.

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