Should I, a incoming college student, get a MacBook Pro for college?

[Dangerous Theory]

Why do you mention college? Seems like your only priority is to run games...?

 

[PurrBall]

I'm in college, and there are a lot of students with MBPs. I have one myself and it works great, I just boot Windows when I need something that isn't available for OS X or isn't on Citrix.

 

[kooskoos1814]

I'm in college, and there are a lot of students with MBPs. I have one myself and it works great, I just boot Windows when I need something that isn't available for OS X or isn't on Citrix.

I agree. You get the best of both worlds !

 

[BlueCollarBelle]

I can't say much about the demands of video games, I'm not a gamer. What I can say is that I'm a college senior and I have loved my MBP for college. I don't run Windows at all and have never missed it. I don't even use Office. iWork's programs have been sufficient and completely compatible with all assignment submission programs. I highly reccomend the MBP. Mine is portable, tough, and had had great battery life, perfect for those classes in older buildings where there is no plug-in to be found.

 

[FreyGrimrod]

Either way (unless building your own pc) I would suggest waiting until you are a student for purchase for the student discounts!!!

 

[underblu]

MBPs are so head and shoulders above their PC laptop counterparts that I'd buy an MBP even if I was just running windows on it.

The only laptop close to the MBP in PC land is the HP envy and given the minimal cost premium for the MBP, I would get the MBP everytime

And I use and enjoy a windows desktop by the way, It's just the windows box makers must be kidding with these cheesy as polyester yesteryear looking bulky plastic wrecks they call laptops.

 

[toothache]

For college,

Just buy something light with good battery life.

Performance is something you really don't need for college.

If you buy 15inch + macbook pro's you will be tempted to play Diablo 3 and that may ruin your life.

 

[Bingbonghoho]

Wirelessly posted

If your field is Engineering, I'd dodge the Mac and get a pc while saving some money for the books.

If you are doing something like social science, no problem!

 

[toothache]

Wirelessly posted

If your field is Engineering, I'd dodge the Mac and get a pc while saving some money for the books.

If you are doing something like social science, no problem!

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Anything to do with CAD/CAM, multimedia editing, 3D (most) are taught with Windows based programs.

I'm in dentistry and EVERYTHING(Software) is designed for Windows.

Pain to bootcamp/parallel if you try to do bootcamp/parallel everyday.

Ended up buying a hp elitebook.

 

[iDutchman]

Besides it being wise to buy an MacBook Pro, it will also probably be wise to upgrade the RAM of the '07 iMac. It can handle a max of 6GB, although the more common 2x 2GB (4GB) will be more than sufficient.

Doing a reinstall of lion is probably the wisest thing to do (note: after the RAM upgrade, Lion requires 2GB min.)

I have one of those aluminum '07 iMacs in the kitchen as Spotify/ web surfing Mac and it's awesome.