<p>I know this is an age old question...but I really do need this advice!</p>
<p>I've always had a mac, and I know how to use it and everything. The only problem is that I'm going to be an environmental engineering major and I don't know how that will work for a mac. Is it a lot of work for an engineer to have a mac? or is it manageable? thanks!</p>
<p>P.S I'm going to UC SanDiego</p>
<p>Several of my friends are engineers and they are fine with Macs. If there is a program you use that absolutely cannot run on a Mac, you could get a copy of Windows and install it via BootCamp and run it that way. Saves you the trouble of buying a whole new computer.</p>
<p>I don’t like using Apple products because I feel that they are too user-friendly, lol. I like having more control over my computers and therefore use the Windows operating system and Linux.</p>
<p>It depends on the person. I will tell you that as an engineering student studying optical sciences engineering, only one or two people have macs in my senior class. This is because we use lens design software and other programs that run better on PCs. My best friend who is an aerospace engineer has a mac and she seems to like it. I have seen other engineers with macs as well, although in my experience I think engineers with PCs outnumber engineers with macs. </p>
<p>I tend to shy away from macs because 1) They are expensive, 2) I have found that a PC can do anything a mac can do and I prefer the PC, 3) Many of my professors have told us outright that a number of the programs that we use run better on PCs, and 4) A lot of engineering students with macs end up downloading windows on their machines anyway, so why bother with a mac?</p>
<p>Again though, it is a combination of personal preference and the major. A person might look at me as a mac hater, when really I just prefer the PC. I would look into the classes you are taking and see if you need any software that has restrictions on what type of computer you need.</p>
<p>Check with the engineering dept at UC San Diego! They would know better than any of us whether their requirements would be compatible with your system.</p>
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A Mac is a PC, it just has a different OS installed. If you bootcamp windows it is exactly the same as running windows on an Asus or Dell, nothing runs better or worse on a specific brand of PC.</p>