<p>university computers has come out with computer packages at discounted prices at <a href=“http://www.bu.edu/univcomp[/url]”>www.bu.edu/univcomp</a>. anyone going for a macintosh package? especially engineering majors?</p>
<p>Looked and decided to pass.</p>
<p>Thanks for the link. DS (going to be a junior at BU) is getting an Apple Powerbook (he's a music major). Those prices are the best we've seen.</p>
<p>@thumper: i am going to be a BME major and i just cant decide whether i should go for a pc or a macintosh. i have gone through so many pc vs mac threads and i really like the mac OS. do you think i'll have any problems, like compatibilty issues if i get a mac for use in BU's campus? would your son have to compromise on anything if he gets the powerbook?</p>
<p>I honestly can't tell you much about the computers at BU...but DS's roommates have both had Macs with no problems whatsoever. BU has done some very significant security upgrades, but my son's freshman year, many PC uses had virus issues a LOT. Mac users had no problems.DS will not have to compromise at all...he and his fellow music majors have researched this issue a lot. Most will be using Powerbooks.</p>
<p>I did an experiment today in the Boston University Personal Computing Support Center. Plugged into the residential network, I disabled all security features available in a fresh Windows XP SP2 installation. Going out of my way to get infected, I installed all of the adware and spyware I could get my hands on. At the time of the last Lavasoft Adaware PE scan, I detected a total of 850 malicious components (including cookies). My personal cleaned-up record in PCSC is 1,053. The lab record is over 4,000. So, it seems that even the most careless student's computer is managable. The problems are totally preventable. I'll have a report on the trojan/worm/virus and cleanup situation tomorrow.</p>