<p>I purchased a Macbook a few weeks ago at the Campus Computer Store during my freshman orientation. After many weeks of researched I concluded that it was the best computer for me, and with the boot camp/parallels feature on the newer Macbook, I could run windows on the computer. I believed that that would fix any problems I would be having in case I needed to use PC only software. </p>
<p>The only problem is, now I keep reading and hearing that colleges prefer if not require engineering majors to have a PC. I am a Biomedical Engineering major and am wondering, what is the big deal with having a PC and what programs do engineering majors need to use that Mac users miss out on?</p>
<p>NNOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
NOT A MAC!
YOU DIDN'T!!!!!!!
PLEASE NO PLEASE NO!
YOU DIDN"T ENTER THIS FORUM SOON ENOUGH!</p>
<p>lol, it's all about dual booting with Linux and windows</p>
<p>^ HA</p>
<p>Mac's aren't very engineering friendly, although Matlab is ported to Mac, but other engineering programs, especially the lesser known/ more specific ones will most likely be windows only. But ur a biomedical engineering major, im not exactly sure how often you will need to use the computer for engineering tasks.</p>
<p>I wouldn't worry, I think all those engineering programs are needed more by mech engineers or architectural engineers, etc, not by biomedical engineers. I'm planning on majoring in chemical and biological engineering (kind of similar) and I called my school to make sure a mac is ok for that major, and they said yes. So now I own I macbook!</p>
<p>The reason is, supposedly, that software you use in these fields tends to be very specialized, so it tends not to be available on macs. But I think you should be fine, especially since you can boot Windows if you need to.</p>