While you’re at it, since you’ll be staring at the screen with your fingers glued to the keyboard for several hours why not getting a display that’s easy on the eyes, easy to code with and a comfortable keyboard too. Getting a machine that has easy access to every OS/IDE and every package/code available, The point is that you should NOT focus on power.īut rather getting the most productive and comfortable environment to write code/programming and working on assignments.
I’m not saying you should buy a cheap chromebook from wallmart. The truth is most people would be with a cheap ChromeBook from Wallmart. Most computer scientists don’t need that much hardware don’t do that! In fact, even if you plan on doing that, you don’t need hardcore hardware.
If I’m going to tinkle around with hardware and somehow improve that hardware’s performance in the future through my awesome code, I would need the best of the best right? I thought I would need the biggest and most bad ass machine with the latest CPU and GPU on it. Before I started my studies in Computer Science…
