Thats just one one product my company offers lol

speaking of, is there a way to open more than one solution at a time? i couldnt figure it out on vs 2005 and 2008. granted, i didnt look all that hard.

To my knowledge it is by design 1 solution per instance of VS.

My professor loves VS but grades my projects in Dev++.

I thought a huge i7 and 16gb wouldn't be enough. Just wanted to confirm before I wasted money. I don't want to upgrade for a few years.

Dude is all depends on the work you are going to be doing. Writing console apps for a college course doesnt require 16gb of ram. Runfning multiple vms does.

I think you are ovrrthibking stuff again.


And your prof still uses bloodshed? Wasn't that project killed years ago?

Visual Studios and I love using my VMs. What be bloodshed? Dev++? It's whatever these books use. My java a last* year was JCreator.

This post was edited by NinjaSushi2 on Apr 28 2014 10:09am

you get can get by on bareminimums, but I recommend you invest as much as you can afford. a good SSD, awesome cpu, and plenty of memory will make your work much less annoying.

Bloodshed is group that develops the Dev-C++ IDE. To my knowledge, it was discontinued and ridiculously out dated.

I loved JCreator. It was an amazing IDE. However, it seems to have fallen under the radar in recent times in the shadow of eclipse, jgrasp, and intellij.

If your books are recomending you use these IDEs that is an indication your books are themselves outdated.

For school, you need jack shit for RAM. I got through 3 years of CS undergrad using a laptop with 3GB RAM, using a VM for Operating Systems class and for Mobile Development class. And I only upgraded because I wanted something to run League of Legends at more than 20FPS.

Then go for 16 GB, this is one reason I chose to go big.