Hello, I’m starting university in a few months and I plan on buying a new laptop. I wanted to purchase a MacBook Pro for years and I think of doing it now, but I’m not sure how it works out with the university courses. I’m doing a combined degree of something with CS, my background is more from the other subject and CS is pretty new to me so sorry if it’s a little stupid but I need to ask- Many people complain about the closed Apple ecosystem and all that, I know most coders like using Windows, Linux, etc. And I know I’m taking a risk receiving a biased answer here - but will having a MacBook limit me in the Computer Science courses for some reason and I better buy another PC for now, or it’s completly fine and I won’t feel any downside? MacOS is a Unix-certified system and is compatible with any open-source developer tools you might use in your studies. It’s based in large in open-source software and much of its operating system code is open source as well. It supports advanced automation tools and is suitable for all kind of development tasks - from web (for which it’s one of most popular platforms) to nicge speciazed tasks. If you want to become a skilled, flexible programmer, it’s either Mac or Linux. Windows I can’t recommend unless you want to focus specifically on Windows. People who complain about closed Apple ecosystem have no clue what they are talking about. Being standard Unix, macOS is much more open to software than Windows for example. MacOS is a Unix-certified system and is compatible with any open-source developer tools you might use in your studies. It’s based in large in open-source software and much of its operating system code is open source as well. It supports advanced automation tools and is suitable for all kind of development tasks - from web (for which it’s one of most popular platforms) to nicge speciazed tasks. Important for Youtube: If Youtube videos don't play in Waterfox (giving you a playback error message) you will have to deactivate the Multiple Process feature in Waterfox's preference settings.' Java for mac os. Its - Mac OS X 10.7.5 compatible Firefox, This tip was written on Apple Support Communities: 'It's October 2017 now, and I run the current version of Waterfox (55.2.2) on OS X 10.7.5. I like that the Reader mode has speech output tied to OS X's voices and that it automatically chooses the correct language as well - if only it wouldn't crash sometimes for some reason. It's derived from Firefox, but is is less tardy than Firefox. If you want to become a skilled, flexible programmer, it’s either Mac or Linux. Windows I can’t recommend unless you want to focus specifically on Windows. People who complain about closed Apple ecosystem have no clue what they are talking about. Being standard Unix, macOS is much more open to software than Windows for example. I have been doing research in CS for close to 20 years now (time flies.), and been using Macs for 14 years now. First, as said above Macos is a Unix OS, so most of what you would do under Linux, you do it almost the same on Macos. ![]() Minecraft mac backing up files. Second, if you like to have a development environment that you fully control (like I do), VMs are very useful. In practice, most of my programming is done under Linux VMs for the sake of convenience. I have not been using Windows for a very long time, so I can definitely not compare. All I will say is that in the CS conferences I attend, half of people use a Mac, and the almost all the other half a PC running Linux. Very, very few use Windows. Hello, I’m starting university in a few months and I plan on buying a new laptop. I wanted to purchase a MacBook Pro for years and I think of doing it now, but I’m not sure how it works out with the university courses. I’m doing a combined degree of something with CS, my background is more from the other subject and CS is pretty new to me so sorry if it’s a little stupid but I need to ask- Many people complain about the closed Apple ecosystem and all that, I know most coders like using Windows, Linux, etc. And I know I’m taking a risk receiving a biased answer here - but will having a MacBook limit me in the Computer Science courses for some reason and I better buy another PC for now, or it’s completly fine and I won’t feel any downside? Hello, I’m starting university in a few months and I plan on buying a new laptop. I wanted to purchase a MacBook Pro for years and I think of doing it now, but I’m not sure how it works out with the university courses. Aug 25, 2017 - Mac OS X is far less vulnerable to viruses and other malware when compared to Windows. You can run Windows and other operating systems as virtuals (VMWare Fusion, Parallels) or Windows native on the hardware in a dual-boot scenario. I’m doing a combined degree of something with CS, my background is more from the other subject and CS is pretty new to me so sorry if it’s a little stupid but I need to ask- Many people complain about the closed Apple ecosystem and all that, I know most coders like using Windows, Linux, etc. And I know I’m taking a risk receiving a biased answer here - but will having a MacBook limit me in the Computer Science courses for some reason and I better buy another PC for now, or it’s completly fine and I won’t feel any downside? Having a Mac will not hinder you in anyway and frankly I think it is the better option for a student just for battery life alone! You shouldn’t have any reason to need windows specific software.
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