I’m admitted into Miami university’s farmer school of business my freshman year. I’m planning on doing accounting. What is a computer that is easier to use for this. I’m pretty smart with both OS as well. If I was going to do a Mac it would be a MacBook Pro and a pc not quite sure. Thanks
Check on your school’s website to see if they suggest a certain type of computer, or look up the GenEd classes you will be taking and see if any of them require a certain software of other computery thing. (Technology is not my strong suit so I don’t know any official terminology.)
Unless you are a computer science major, a gamer, or otherwise very particular about operating systems, it shouldn’t really matter too much which OS you use.
It really doesn’t matter for most business schools because you will mostly just need Excel/Word/PowerPoint, which you can get on a Mac, and if you need any specialized software your school should have computer labs you can use with that software on it.
DD has a Mac. You may want to consider either Bootcamp or Parallels if you will he spending a lot of time on the Windows side. DD uses Bootcamp for all her business courses. Good luck!
I’d get either a MacBook Air as they are very small or the Microsoft Surface 4 as it works as a tablet, you can draw and right wing the stylus an it’s about 1500$ cheaper
I would recommend getting a PC for business. I am at the Kelley School of Business at Indiana University, and you are required to have either a PC, or bootcamp your Mac for the first computer class
Although I think both a Mac and a PC would suit your needs, I would lean towards a Windows machine for business. There are certain business functions in Excel that you can only do in Windows. Notably the Analysis ToolPak is available for Windows but not for Mac, and yes, we did have some undergraduate economics majors that I advised who would’ve benefited from access to that. You also can’t general pivot charts in Excel for Mac. (However, my knowledge of this is based on the prior versions of these applications - Office 2013 for Windows and Office 2011 for Mac. With the new 2016 versions some of these differences might be eliminated. You’ll want to check on your own.)
Now, which PC you get doesn’t really matter. PCs are much better these days than in the past and most PCs will last you the duration of your college career. I personally have an HP Spectre x360 and I love it - lightweight, long battery life, and folds back into a tablet or tent mode or viewing mode (I don’t use these that often but I like the option). Other good computers are Lenovos (particularly the Yoga series) and Toshibas (the Radius series is pretty good), as well as Asus, Acer, and Samsungs. Up to you though!
Macs are also great - my last computer was a Mac. I worked in an analysis-heavy role and there was only ever one program I couldn’t access on a Mac, and I just used VMWare to start a windows environment in my Mac.