Does anyone know how I can borrow a Mac computer for use for research?

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<p>I’d like to borrow a Mac computer running OS 10.8 Mountain Lion and
XCode 4.5.1. My adviser has written a program in Objective-C++ that
can only be run on Macs, and I can’t install any software directly on
any of the Mac computers here. Does anyone know if Brown has a service
for borrowing computers, or if it’s possible to ask someone to install
XCode 4.5.1 on a OS 10.8 Mountain Lion computer that Brown owns
(either in a library or in the CS department computers)?</p>

<p>I would definitely need it for more than a few days, so Rockefeller wouldn’t count.</p>

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<p>I would ask your advisor first - the department may have some they can lend out. Otherwise, you’re probably out of luck - I know you can’t install anything on the general computers.</p>

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<p>Yeah - my adviser is telling me to ask the people who admin the general computers to ask if they might be able to install XCode for me, maybe.</p>

<p>Are there Macs available for students in Barus & Holley, anyways?</p>

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<p>Don’t know about B&H, but you can take out laptop from the Rock for like 6 hours in-building use. </p>

<p>I imagine you want it for a longer period of time than that and I know CIS does laptop rentals for like month-long intervals (though, with their prices, it may not be worth it). [Computing</a> Service and Repair | Brown University](<a href=“OIT | Brown University”>OIT | Brown University)</p>

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<p>Ah thanks for the advice. And yeah - probably not worth it. =/ Adviser has asked me to consider asking tech staff to install.</p>