Hm... this is strangely interesting. I'm not sure *why* you (or anyone else, for that matter) would want to *program* in assembly code. Xcode is pretty nifty and nice. But then again, try to find from other folks what they say -- if I understand things correctly, Xcode will probably use an assembler, it is, after all, the Unix way of doing things. If I wasn't being lame right now, I'd research it for you, but in any case, I *thought* that Xcode was largely reliant on gcc and gcc probably calls some gnu-assembler (even though they were complaining about gas, maybe it's a different version?, and how come, gnu stuff tends to be pretty well synchronized?).
More stuff to think about -- most mac users get stuff from the Mac side of versiontracker.com -- I'm sure you can find stuff like mplayer already compiled and ready to go there, mac users don't usually compile anything.
Even more stuff to think about -- do you *need* a laptop now? Because the mac desktops are several times cheaper. You could get a desktop now and see how you like it. Also, while I know people with an Intel Mac laptop who are very happy with it, there are lots of people complaining about various things like bad wi-fi reception and overheating, you may want to wait a few more months to get one unless you absolutely need one right now.
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Date: Tuesday, 16 May 2006 01:53 am (UTC)More stuff to think about -- most mac users get stuff from the Mac side of versiontracker.com -- I'm sure you can find stuff like mplayer already compiled and ready to go there, mac users don't usually compile anything.
Even more stuff to think about -- do you *need* a laptop now? Because the mac desktops are several times cheaper. You could get a desktop now and see how you like it. Also, while I know people with an Intel Mac laptop who are very happy with it, there are lots of people complaining about various things like bad wi-fi reception and overheating, you may want to wait a few more months to get one unless you absolutely need one right now.
Good luck!