On the PC you can also try out the differences of running with a Type 1 or Type 2 Hypervisors. Unless they are focusing on a specific VM not available for Mac. The Mac will likely do it fine for whatever your class wants. There's just many more VM options to choose from. I don't want to spend a fortune on a second computer (I like the one I already have, for writing and edititng, and have no plans selling it - will be using an extra macbook for programming only), I just want a 'work-horse' for programming that can withstand a big amount of RAM being usedĬlick to expand.As said the PC would. I'm currently using a Macbook air from mid-2013 with 4GB of RAM, and yeah you can only imagine what happened when I first booted the Virtual Machine (and I knew beforehand but wanted to test the limit since it cooould work as told by the instructor, but it ate dust) I've read that 16GB is supposed to be a better choice for working with Virtual Machine, or is 8GB enough? It's said to be good on 8GB RAM, and it should run as expected.

I'm taking a course that includes having a Virtual Machine with Kali Linux, and Windows 10 as testing environment. The difference in graphics is the mid-12's Intel HD 4000 1536MB vs the late-13's Inte Iris 1536MB, but that doesn't matter for programming at least. Hi! I'm on the fence between choosing a Macbook pro 13' from mid-12, with 2,5 GHz Dual-core Intel core i5 processor, upgraded with 16GB 1600 DDR3 RAM and 1TB SSD - or choosing a Macbook pro late -13, with 2,4GHz Intel Core i5, 8GB 1600 DDR3 RAM and 256GB SSD.

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