Through Boot Camp, it will be just like you are using a Windows system, and won't get any slowdowns or problems (aside from the usual from a Windows system). If this is the case, you will definitely want to get a Boot Camp partition set up. Id say theyre worth the money, and unlike PCs ,they actually maintain a resale value (ebay has well-maintained macs reselling for 400). If, however, you end up doing something a little more "fancy" (say in a graphics or visualization course), I would highly NOT recommend using VMWare Fusion for your coding, since it doesn't communicate directly with the video card and does it all through software (and it sucks, as far as I've been able to test). In my experience, Macs are more robust and better utilize their hardware than their PC counterparts do. If your degree is anything like mine, you won't be doing any GUI programming (except maybe Java?) anyway, so you don't have to worry about all of the messy differences between the two operating systems. Other than the menu bar appearing at the top of my screen when I went too far up, I couldn't tell I wasn't running Windows natively. For my last few assignments, I booted up a Windows XP VMWare Fusion virtual machine and did all of my coding in Visual Studio. I am just finishing up my comp sci degree now, and just bought my MBP at the end of my degree (unfortunately, I must say!).
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