<p>I'll be a Pitt engineering freshman in the fall and I need a laptop but I'm at a lost with which one I will need. The Pitt website offers recommendations for Apple, Dell and Lenovo laptops but the Apple link just sends you to the Pitt section of the Apple Store where the Apple for educational discount is applied. I would greatly prefer a Mac instead of a PC but with engineering programs it can be sometimes hard to find the software if it even exists. Plus the site says that you should check with your department before buying a laptop to ensure it's what is required and I've spent a lot of time looking at the engineering department page and have found nothing. So could anyone help tell me what the engineering department at Pitt recommends with which laptop as well as what's inside.</p>
<p>Does the engineering department have a contact us link? Try it if it does and ask that question.</p>
<p>Email engineering dept. about it – I have heard that there are some engineering programs that don’t run on Macs. Son bought a Dell and it has worked out fine. He is also in engineering.</p>
<p>I already talked to OP about this but for Engineering I highly reccomend getting a PC Laptop. The macs will work OK but you will have to create a partition and install Windows onto a second “half” of the computer. Even then the programs sometimes run funky plus it really drains batteries.</p>
<p>Save some money and trouble, get a PC. That’s what I would reccomend, I just finished my first year.</p>