<p>Do most students at Duke have Mac or pc? At Pratt specifically, is one preferred or more popular? </p>
<p>Thanks</p>
<p>As I recall, Duke supports both Macs and PCs so I don’t believe there’s a technical reason to prefer one over the other. The Duke store offers packages from Lenovo, Dell, and Apple to students and all are fully supported by OIT. Most people just go with their personal preference. I hear the fruit is pretty hip these days but I’m just a boring old PC guy.</p>
<p>Most students have Macbooks. (Or at least, that’s what it seems like. ;D)</p>
<p>^Not true. I’d say that, overall, more people have PCs but such a variety that it just seems like there are a lot more Macs which are more uniform. Take this from a student who actually is at Duke now.</p>
<p>When our son started college a few years ago we were told that some majors wanted MACs and some majors wanted PCs</p>
<p>it honestly doesn’t matter. if you’re an engineer there are some windows only programs you must use but most time the school computers will have the programs. you can also access school software from your own cpu via ssh and if you really cared that much you’d just install bootcamp anyways.</p>
<p>i don’t think there would be any majors at duke where macs would be necessary either</p>
<p>maybe if you plan on being a developer or you like unix, you can go mac but that’s unrelated. don’t need one or the other to get through duke and at most it’ll just be a little extra hassle.</p>
<p>Either will be fine. One thing, however, you may wish to consider if you have not already purchased that initial college laptop is to have it delivered to your dorm room upon August arrival (presuming, of course, acceptance and matriculation) through Duke’s store. The prices are very good, orders can be processed as an element of your orientation package, and on-site support obviously is readily available.</p>
<p>Depends on major.</p>