At 8:14 AM -0400 4/17/05, Lawrence David Eden wrote:
Unless she HAS to get a PC (and I can't think of a single reason why a freshman would be that committed to one of the departments that requires them) she ought to get a Mac. Period."
At this university there are department-specific requirements. Art and Music require Macs, and Music strongly recommends laptops so they can go to class. The Colleges of Engineering and Business require PCs. At one point the Computer Science department required Macs, but substituted a different operating system--possibly the OS (I can't remember its name) that is behind OS 10. It may have to do with what saftware is required, but it also has to do with what the students will find themselves working with in the "real world."
John
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