I am applying to college now and one of the colleges says that you must have a PC running Win XP Pro!!!!
How unfair is that.
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PC only college!!!
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There should be a OS X or Linux-only college. That whould make more sense. No need worrying about anti-virus and anti-spyware and all that ****.
Then the IT guys wouldn't have a job. I'm convinced that's why the IT dept at my college don't use OSX. They openly admit that they would be better yet stick with XP pro because (what follows is my opinion) it ensures job security.dubbz said:
My brother's college said PC only. He has an iBook. It turns out that they just won't do technical support for macs. So I think you could use your mac on campus.
*cough*Bullocks*cough*carpe diem said:
They're just clueless. Or they use some weirdass Windows-only system.
which is....?carpe diem said:
I'm curious to see what they have to say - you have a link to their site stating this?
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Yes. (Although there can be work arounds.)carpe diem said:
However, as long as the network is TCP/IP based you should be okay.
Sometimes, networks will even support Appletalk. But since the question concerned Mac OS X, TCP/IP is fine.
Sushi
Just remember that most PC heads will tell you that it won't work.carpe diem said:
Nor will they want to support you.
Hang in there and don't give up.
My guess is that their network is set up for DHCP access using TCP/IP over Ethernet or WiFi. All Mac OS X supports this.
Sushi
Only problem with this, is if they register the MAC address.OutThere said:There's a good chance they'd make you register your computer and it'd have to be a PC, but as long as you had some junker PC around to register with, you could most likely pull out your Mac when you get to your room. Good chance it'd work fine.
My guess is that they won't.
In some environments that I've worked in, everything is static. So there is a lot of setup tasks to complete to get the PC to work on the network. In this case, as long as you have the variables, usually you can get a Mac up and running as well.
As for getting an old PC, I just picked up an old Compaq laptop sans HD for free. I had a 40GB HD laying around so I used it. Installed WinXP and Office 2003. Slow but works.
Even put an old Linksys B card (that I found in the trash) for WiFi.
Sushi