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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Is a MacBook Air sufficient for most college students or is a MacBook Pro better? Purchasing this as a gift for my niece who specifically wants Apple and we’re a pc family. She will be a math major. Thanks for any help![/quote] Our humanities major kid has been very happy with a MacBook Air. My other kid who plans to major in math has attended some college math classes and says lots of the students are using iPads with Apple pencils; it sounds like that’s much easier for note-taking when you’re dealing with equations, etc. [/quote] not sure how my kid does it but they are a cs/math major have a windows machine. They said there's an app or something you can use for math hw.[/quote] All of the math programs - Mathematica, Matlab, and Maple - are fully supported on both Mac and Windows. For CS, students often dual-boot their Windows machine into Linux or BSD — or use Microsoft’s “Linux subsystem for Windows”. Starting with the Fall 2025 release of MacOS, Apple will be supporting “containers” natively - no need to get another software package.[/quote]
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