<p>Hey guys I would really appreciate some help.</p>
<p>I recently just purchased a Samsung Series 7 laptop because I fell in love with my friends laptop (he has the exact same one). After four days of usage, my touch pad has been annoyingly terrible and it froze randomly twice! Spending a $1000 was tough but I thought it would be worth it because of the amazing specs (.. 1 TB Hard Drive). </p>
<p>I'm definitely returning it because I feel like I got a defected laptop but am lost again as what to purchase. I want to just buy a Mac but don't know if that's a smart move according to some people who keep reminding me engineers shouldn't use Mac's.</p>
<p>Some advice would be great!</p>
<p>The people who keep reminding you engineers shouldn’t use Macs probably don’t use Macs. As an EE student, you’d be fine with either Windows or OS X (and remember that you can have both installed on a Mac).</p>
<p>The question you need to answer for yourself is if the hardware build quality is worth the added cost. The best way to figure that out is to try out a few machines at an Apple and Microsoft store (they’re usually right next to each other anyway).</p>
<p>Yea, honestly it doesn’t really matter if you use mac/windows. For the software that you’ll be mainly using in EE (prbly Cadence or PSpice), you’ll be doing most of the work on SEAS computer (or through remote desktop), so compatibility shouldn’t be an issue.
I would say try both Windows and Mac out, and see which one you like better. If one of your professors do require you to use Windows to accomplish something, just use remote desktop to connect to one of the windows in SEAS, or just go to SEASLab and do your work there.</p>
<p>And oh SEAS is the School of Engineering and Applied Sciences. You’re given a SEAS account as long as you’re a student there, and you can use the account to login to their servers and computers (they have both windows and linux servers, with all the software that you’ll need for academics).</p>
<p>The main reason you might want to lean towards a PC over a Mac is that SEASNet doesn’t fully support Macs</p>