<p>Hi. I will be an engineering major in college this fall and I want to purchase my new laptop soon in order to get used to the feel and workings of it. I have heard that MacBooks don't run some engineering programs, but I could just download the windows operating system to run them, as my dad has done. Any recommendations?</p>
<p>Macs can run indeed run Windows easily and legally with Boot Camp or Parallels.</p>
<p>If you choose to get a Mac and use parallels or boot camp to run Windows too, make sure you get a good amount of RAM so you don’t have any lag. You can get 16GB online for about $100, while Apple will charge $100-$200 to upgrade from 4GB to 8GB.</p>