<p>I'll be going into my first year of architecture this fall at USC and was wondering-- what laptop would be best suited for the architecture program? Any recommendations..?</p>
<p>recommendation: USC will be sending you a recommendation sheet around the same time as your studio materials list. Wait for that.</p>
<p>I also think you should wait to hear what they want you to have. </p>
<p>I have a daughter in a BA program. She got a laptop for college that is a Mac, which we have always used. However, she took a 3D Architectural/Digital Representation class at RISD (she attends Brown), and all the programs she had to learn were only for a PC and so she had to buy a second laptop to run all the arch programs on. However, all the students in her class, who attend RISD in the BArch or the MArch program, all had the right laptops because they were required to buy certain ones when entering their program. I imagine for your program, this will be true as well.</p>