I was wondering, what kind of HW should i get for general programming purpose. I heard my apps dont run correctly on multicore vista. So what i was thinking is A) 64bit OS, B) multicore CPU and thats pretty much all i have unless i want to program with GPUs and i dont. Do you guys have any suggestions?
PS: I have a machine that is big endian so that takes care of testing if i need it.
It depends on what your objective is? There's a whole world of embedded programming with tons of hardware of all shapes and sizes to deal with. If it is for purely education purposes, that may prove to be just as interesting as going high-end.
I agree with sybreon, it depends on what your goal is. If you're looking into "the future", you should definitely take a look at GPUs because they're the next generation of parallel computing. Other than that, I can't imagine what else you could "learn" for other than multi-core, which is taken care of by threads.
But honestly, please reword your question, it hardly makes any sense.