<p>If I want to study alot of math and economics, will a mac be sufficient to run the required programs? I know the University suggests Macs and Dells, but I wanted to know if anyone had specific information about the preferences of these departments. Thanks!</p>
<p>You may want to talk with someone in these departments, but it is my son's impression (he worked for rescom last year) that either would be ok. There is a Mac version of Mathematica, and you could run in Windows emulation if you had to.</p>
<p>Tons of students have Macs. It should be fine.</p>
<p>Macs are far superior to windows, esp. for college students: they are much more reliable, and last much longer.</p>
<p>And, although this is increasingly more rare, you can always boot up in windows or linux if you need to run a program that won't run on mac. Go to the apple website, check out Leopard, and look at the laptops they offer--how can you not go mac??</p>
<p>p.s. the only advantage to buying a Dell laptop is you can buy cheap laptops from them, like under a grand notebooks</p>
<p>when i went for an accepted students day in april. Both the students in the room i stayed in had macs fyi</p>