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Tilted Cat Head
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Location: Manhattan, NY
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Originally Posted by ScottKuma
If you have no other impeding reasons (large investments in PC software, non-standard hardware, etc.) I'd recommend the mac AS LONG AS your school provides support for Apple as well as PCs and your curriculum doesn't require PCs: for example, you're learning programming from a PC perspective, or using languages that are PC-centric, like Visual Basic.
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I could also include for other readers, that the same applies for your place of work.
VPN connectivity doesn't work as simply to Macs depending on the infrastructure. Also there may be applications even though web based that are coded in a manner that doesn't support Safari or Firefox. (Something I'm currently contending with as costs for cross platform functionality are much higher for development than just single browser/platform.)
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