

Is that you are on a limited budget for one or a couple classes down the line. In that you can run VM's in macOS, in Windows, in Linux or even properly supported macOS VMs within macOS. Now on the Macbook you could use Bootcamp and try everything out. I'm not sure how easy or possible it is to implement a Type 1 on a Mac.


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.
