mac or windows for programming?

[steady prairie]

Should i buy a mac or windows for programming

[surreal tiger]

depends

what will you do apart from programming

a bit of gaming?

designing?

[tacit current]

Doesn't matter

[tawny plinth]

depends on

• budget
• other uses
• level of programming complexity, field
• need for ios/macos builds

[steady prairie]

Im taking computer science

[steady prairie]

Um nah probably just for studying

[tawny plinth]

what's your budget?

tbf you could do all of cs on just an android

[steady prairie]

If you ignore the budget

[tawny plinth]

a macbook air

[steady prairie]

Hmm alr thx

[steady prairie]

But if im low on budget then windows right

[tawny plinth]

yea

as far as CS is concerned even a phone could be enough

windows works too

[steady prairie]

Alr if my budget is around 1.3 more or less which one should i buy for mac

[tawny plinth]

$1.3k?

if you're not into gaming and stuff, mac fs

[steady prairie]

Oh ok

[robust hull]

Mac all the way

[steady prairie]

Why

[robust hull]

You should get a mac with minimum of 16GB ram

As long as it's an M series

[steady prairie]

Okok

[robust hull]

My own preference mayhpas. I travel a lot so it'll come in handy

I'm purchasing one as well for this exact reaspn

[tawny plinth]

• it lasts longer, better support
• the air has no moving parts, better durability

plus if you have an iphone/ipad the ecosystem goes a long way

[steady prairie]

Hmm like from the performance sector is mac generally better

[tawny plinth]

i mean if you're looking at the m3 it's top tier

[steady prairie]

Yeah but 1,3 ain't enough

[tawny plinth]

plus battery life's much better

[steady prairie]

I need atleast 512gb

[tawny plinth]

i mean, i bought the m2 mac mini 16g, there's nothing it lags at

[steady prairie]

Yeah probably going for that

[tawny plinth]

four code workspaces with dev envs, docker, wine, 30 tabs

if you can buy a mini it's the best

[steady prairie]

Have you tried windows tho

[steady prairie]

Why

[tawny plinth]

yeahh i shifted from windows only

[tawny plinth]

the mba equivalent to my $800 mini is $1100 or smth i think

it's much cheaper and has a fan

[steady prairie]

And one more thing ,can you like give me some usecase where the ecosystem is usefull

[steady prairie]

Oh okay

[tawny plinth]

airdrop, remote access, icloud

if you have an ipad you can control it with your mac

or control the mac with your ipad

splashtop

[steady prairie]

Hmm okay

[steady prairie]

Im not in the us so prices are higher here

[steady prairie]

Thanks

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[steady prairie]

Thanks