Seriously I am.I’m a mature student and I completed my maths degree years ago. I only just picked up studying again, part time, over the last couple of years. I

Seriously I am.I’m a mature student and I completed my maths degree years ago. I only just picked up studying again, part time, over the last couple of years. I’ve been mainly studying number theory and Galois theory recently, in which all the problems were solved with pen and paper. When I say computer illiterate I can obviously use Microsoft office etc but when it comes to evaluating a machine that will last me possibly 5 years doing coding (which I’ve never done before) I haven’t got a clue. I don’t want a separate monitor and computer if I can help it. Being fairly clueless I’d rather get something I can just unbox and switch on, but powerful enough to cope later on. Do you think the Mac is a waste of money?