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Started by chreyuasd December 27, 2016 02:06 AM

15 comments, last by DigitalNomad 7 years, 3 months ago

chreyuasd

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December 27, 2016 02:06 AM

Hello,
I will be studying Games Development (Designer) soon, but now i am so confused on choosing the right laptop for me?

Could you guys please advice me which one i should buy a Macbook or Windows laptop? ( with the benefit on both side if possible :D )

I prefer to make games for PC rather than iOS.

Thankyou before.

Happy developing !

LennyLen

5,720

December 27, 2016 05:14 AM

As a designer, you probably don't need an overly powerful machine, so you'll be able to save money by buying a Windows based laptop. If Windows is your preferred platform, then that's another tick in its favour. The only advantage I could see in getting a Macbook is if the software you'll be using for your course is either Mac-only or better supported for Mac.

Nypyren

12,313

December 27, 2016 05:29 AM

Both are fine for game development. If you know what your course will be using, it will probably be easier to use that. Otherwise, get what you like the most.

chreyuasd

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December 27, 2016 05:58 AM

As a designer, you probably don't need an overly powerful machine, so you'll be able to save money by buying a Windows based laptop. If Windows is your preferred platform, then that's another tick in its favour. The only advantage I could see in getting a Macbook is if the software you'll be using for your course is either Mac-only or better supported for Mac.

Thankyou for your reply,
Yes, my course environment is full of macOS. So i think macbook is all the way better to stay connect with them? is it bad if i am using windows while my surrounding are macOS?

Both are fine for game development. If you know what your course will be using, it will probably be easier to use that. Otherwise, get what you like the most.

Thankyou for your reply,
Okay, i think better i get a macbook because my whole course are full of mac.

ChaosEngine

5,385

December 27, 2016 10:21 AM

Who is paying for this laptop?
If it's you, get a windows laptop.
If not, get a mac

if you think programming is like sex, you probably haven't done much of either.-------------- - capn_midnight

Bregma

9,461

December 27, 2016 01:35 PM

You can run a licensed copy of Windows in a virtual machine (Boot Camp/VMWare) on a Mac, but you can't legally run a copy of Mac OS in a VM on Windows.

Stephen M. Webb
Professional Free Software Developer

chreyuasd

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December 27, 2016 01:40 PM

You can run a licensed copy of Windows in a virtual machine (Boot Camp/VMWare) on a Mac, but you can't legally run a copy of Mac OS in a VM on Windows.

Hello,
If i could only buy the 256GB 15" new macbook pro, is it enough to run the boot camp? Or i should just get the 512GB 13" new macbook pro?
Thankyou

_the_phantom_

11,263

December 27, 2016 01:58 PM

If you get the MacBook, and you won't be using Windows all the time, then get an external solid state drive and install Windows to that; you won't notice a speed difference and it will save you using internal drive space. (A Samsung 512Gig external SSD should be reasoning cheap by now, when I looked about a year ago they were ~£300 but I would have expected a price drop by now.)

You should probably also try and get last year's MacBook; performance wise you won't be losing much, you'll have saner USB ports and you'll save some cash.

stupid_programmer

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December 27, 2016 04:34 PM

Macbook is my primary machine at work. I also run Parallels so I always have Windows running in a VM that is fully integrated into the Mac OS. But the base Macbook won't cut it as your system will always be bogged down. Really need at least 16 gigs of RAM so you can give Windows eight or it will always be paging memory. Really though, the boot time of OSX and Windows is pretty short on a SSD so just going the Boot Camp route and restarting as needed is probably the better solution for a designer.