<p>On the other hand, I paid $1200 for my 13" MacBook Pro (got a free iPod Touch as well), and it’s still worth over $700.</p>
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<p>No he wouldn’t, I’m a CS minor (very close to being a fully-fledge double-major) and I’ve asked around. CS majors (and professors) are a darn diverse bunch. Some of them aren’t into programming or software engineering at all and love the theoretical, abstract, mathematical side of everything (bluh), some of them are your traditional Star Trek-watching, Linux-using nerds who yearn for a job in the game development industry and get into Holy Wars over Emacs versus Vi (yes, even today’s undergrads fight this war) and C++ versus Java, some want to use CS as a stepping stone into the high-paid finance arena, etc. I’ve met other people who share my philosophy of buying a cheap PC/laptop and upgrading/repairing as necessary. This didn’t use to be true, there was a much more rapid rate of change in game graphics long ago and getting the fastest PC was a must for a gamer or power user, but that’s not the case anymore.</p>