I graduated from Iowa State U. in Dec '99 with a degree in each of CS and Journalism. I thought about continuing on to grad school, but decided to get a job in software instead.
If I decide to do the grad school thing, my company will foot the bill and I can get my Masters in 3 years or so. But for now, getting some work done is the right choice for me. It's given me a chance to find out that I'm not exactly in the right job, and therefore a chance to learn the stuff I need to get into a specialty I will enjoy more.
I work with people who have gotten their Masters, as well as people who have no degree at all. They're all treated pretty much equally. The M.S.'s may make a slightly higher salary, but in most positions it's not much of a difference.
Agreed. The iBooks are great machines for some things; running OS X is not one of those things. All the iBooks come with 64MB - you'll have to at least double that to even think about OS X. The iBook has only a 256k L2 cache.
Even the base PowerBook comes with a 1MB L2 cache, and it makes a noticeable difference. The bus runs at 100MHz versus 66MHz on the iBook. The extra screen real estate (1024x768) is also something you'd miss.
I'd suggest the base 400MHz PB upgraded to 128MB or more.
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If I decide to do the grad school thing, my company will foot the bill and I can get my Masters in 3 years or so. But for now, getting some work done is the right choice for me. It's given me a chance to find out that I'm not exactly in the right job, and therefore a chance to learn the stuff I need to get into a specialty I will enjoy more.
I work with people who have gotten their Masters, as well as people who have no degree at all. They're all treated pretty much equally. The M.S.'s may make a slightly higher salary, but in most positions it's not much of a difference.
Even the base PowerBook comes with a 1MB L2 cache, and it makes a noticeable difference. The bus runs at 100MHz versus 66MHz on the iBook. The extra screen real estate (1024x768) is also something you'd miss.
I'd suggest the base 400MHz PB upgraded to 128MB or more.