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Anyways, you won't have a problem. Maybe once or twice in your college career, you'll face a little obstacle, but its well worth the Mac experience. And maybe a cute girl will look at your computer and say "whats that?" And maybe it will start up a conversation and you'll fall in love with your soul mate. Who the f*ck knows

Haha hell yea!  But anyways, I'm majoring in Chemical Engineering/ Bioengineering.  Don't know how much autoCAD will be used in that.

Well... I am enrolled in Johnson County Community College (Overland Park, KS) tpwards an AAS in Information Technology, and I use my iBook for everything so far.  The only thing I have found is that Safari will not allow me to log into the Cisco on-line academy.  I have to use IE for that.

My iBook is a great little machine.  It's light, durable, and runs everything I need.  Though most of this campus is not set up for wireless networking.  That's a bummer!

I must admit feeling a little out of place at times because I'm a first time college student, and I'm pushing 40.  Most of the students are about half my age!  That, and I have driven the counselor crazy with a huge stack of military and civilian diplomas to evaluate for credit.  Oh well... the military courses transfer for free, and the others for only $25.00 per credit hour.  Not too bad.

Chemical Engineering , eh? I'll assume you have to take a lot of chem or physics for that. iBooks match well in a lab, if you ever use it there. And Mathematica is a really neat and clean running program to help with those intregals and such.

And the basics of AutoCAD arenet really that hard to learn. It's doing things like getting AutoCAD to pick your nose or something that takes ninjitsu mastery skill. If you can tool around with a sharware version or something, i'd give it a look. It basicly follows simple drafting rules.

After a little testing about today, I can firmly say that you'll be alright even if you need a little PC application or two.  AutoCAD might be out, but my TiBook can do XP Pro at fullscreen doing light-average load work and not miss a beat.  It felt like those times I had to use my roomie's P4 1.8Ghz Dell.

What are you planning on majoring in?

Unless what you are doing in college is computer oriented (programming, webdesign, etc.) you would be fine with a mac, or a pc, as other than specific programs the DO the same thing.

Most colleges seem to let you use anything you want to use, unless you are in a certain class, which may have special requirements.

If all else fails, just get VPC and you'll be fine.

~The Penguin

Now adays you may actually be better off with a Mac than a PC for Computer related stuff (i.e. programming).  The reason is a lot of campuses use Unix for all that, thus the Mac is a great option.  Usually no GUI stuff is done and thus the source is the same (or requiring VERY few changes) and thus there is no problem.  Plus I think you may be able to compile on the Mac for Unix just fine.  If you go with Codewarrior you can actually compile for Windows too so you're set.  When you get to GUI stuff it will probably be X-Windows or Java.  If it's the former you may be able to do it straight on your Mac, or at worst you will have to do it at the labs, just like all the Windows people will have to too.  If it's Java there will be no problem at all (other than having to use very unaesthetic Java feature )

You should be fine with web design too, in fact a web design class may suggest Macs.

so...how old is tito? like 16?

really. i'm serious.
this kid is amazing.

everyone agrees apple laptops are the best
tito

word.

If you want a Mac, get one.. you might just love the whole Mac experience phenomena, Apple people will tell you, you can't put a price on the perceived user experience.

If you want more hardware bang for your buck and something faster and more powerful, look into a good PC notebook with a Pentium-M or mobile Athlon. You won't have to look far to see a less expensive lowly 1.3 Centrino notebook cleaning the floor performance wise with every Mac notebook made. You can get a better graphics chipset, faster CPU and spend less.

If you really want to be spiffy, the Athlon 64 notebooks are supposedly around the corner.

I bummed my mom's laptop while I was here the first few weeks of college, it sat on the desk so I decided tower was the way to go for me considering all the cool ComSci classes and design classes I want to take and stuff.  But yea, on campuses especially ones with WiFi all over, Macs are are like Tiny Gods amongst a sea of bulky heavy Dells.

Ah! Zombie thread from HELL!!!

Yeah so look at my comments from March to get my opinion.

Ah! Zombie thread from HELL!!!

indeed

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