I don't have a MacBook anymore, wish I did. I actually have a 17inch beefy windows HP Laptop and a chromebook. Back when i was a student I did have an Air, it was built like a tank. I dropped it so many times and still was going strong...the battery life was incredible....too. Unfortunately it...
The MacBooks are unrivaled I am a fan of them, they are build like tanks and everything from them is just better except the hefty price tag !
From the countless of laptops I've seen online there are only two that can put up a fight (no more than a few rounds) with them:
DELL XPS 13 & 15 for...
That's a very good question. You need to learn basically what a computer engineering student has to learn: check out their syllabus looks like and see what they have to learn.
You can start with this book: https://www.amazon.com/Computer-Organization-Design-MIPS-Fifth/dp/0124077269 and see...
which ever has the biggest number of physical cores should be better provided you are not running intensive stuff on each VM, so yeah looks like the AMD is the best choice, i think it has 16 right? and the xeon 6?