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My wife is tenured Mechanical Engineering faculty at KU. Very few students in ME use Mac's, and this is at KU, which has a pretty substantial population of Mac users. What you should look into is the software they use in the department, and if they are using Solidworks, get a PC. Solidworks isn't available for the Mac. Besides, if a Mac is $400.00 more, it's kind of silly to go that route, as a good anti-virus & internet security package is a whole lot less than that.
Where are you going to school?
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What school are you going to? I mean, most schools have some sort of design lab which have much better computers than any laptop you'll get. Plus, you're in engineering, so that means that you won't be taking notes on your laptop. You're going to be doing tons of math/physics, so it's really hard to take notes and write equations on your laptop. I suggest not bringing it to class at all, because you'll just be playing games instead of paying attention (I learned this the hard way freshman year).
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Furthermore, as much as I like macs, I'd think twice and double check with your school before I bought a mac as an engineering student. Today's macs can run windows programs, but if you're going to be required to run some windows programs you might as well just get a windows machine and save a few hundred dollars.
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I hear windows is giving out money for laptop hunters. Ask them to buy you one.
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What do you need a laptop for then? Are you missing any fingers or toes?
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