<p>Is one laptop preferred over the other at U of R?</p>
<p>I have a PC currently, but I'm debating about possibly getting a Mac because of their students promotion over the summer. Can having one get in the way for any classes?</p>
<p>get a mac, if you have an XP CD, you can partition your hard drive 70%mac and 30% windows and choose if you want to boot up in mac or windows mode using what is called “Boot camp” (free with mac osx), it is a win win.</p>
<p>It will not get in the way.</p>
<p>D has a mac and the only issue she’s run into is that she can’t access her UR gmail account through the myrochester portal. (She can access it just fine through another URL so it’s not a big deal.)</p>
<p>WayOutWest,
Does she have a popup blocker on? I have a mac too and I am able to access through my.rochester portal.</p>
<p>Run Parallels on the Mac. It is only $79 and it will run all Windows applications flawlessly.
Superior solution to BootCamp. You do not need to reboot and you can drag and drop files between the two operating systems. Personally, I would buy a netbook for carrying around campus and a Windows based notebook for the home base. You can get a netbook, notebook, and printer for the cost of a Mac notebook. Macs are that much more expensive.</p>
<p>Be careful with Parallels though, the windows OS will not have nearly the resources as a typical windows OS running through something like bootcamp. So I know you can’t play most computer games using Parallels, but I’m not sure if it affects other applications, I haven’t checked.</p>
<p>Unless however, you are interested in paying more for the higher quality notebooks produced by apple. (If you get apple care and your mac has 3 significant malfunctions within 2 years they will give you a brand new computer, apple customer service is way better then Dell, Toshiba and HP’s</p>