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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Macbooks work perfectly fine for Engineering/CS. We have kids in our extended family that are/were in Engineering programs at Georgia Tech, UIUC, CWRU and Stanford that use Apple laptops (Macbook Pros). Two of these kids are in CS.[/quote] I am not impugning Macs. I am just saying that there are some university engineering programs that tell students not to buy a Mac. [/quote] I call BS. Citation or it doesn’t exist. If you really need to run something on Windows you run VirtualBox. Apple M1 is better for * creative stuff * research and paper writing * software development * running Jupyter for simple data and stats stuff (any of conda macports or home brew will work here, since you don’t need the optimized linear algebra libraries for student work) * machine learning (M1 is scarily close to GPU performance) The power efficiency is also just a killer feature for someone who may not plug in much during the day. [/quote]
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