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Of course you can
Boot Camp is just Windows running natively on the Mac hardware. Autodesk even support AutoCAD under Boot Camp.Seriously, take it from an engineering graduate. A MacBook Pro running Boot Camp will easily meet the modelling requirements when you need it (which won't be as often as the colleges like to make out).
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http://infotech.seas.virginia.edu/firstyear/ said:
What FUD! If you run Windows on your Mac there are no different keystrokes or mouse strokes. It's still Windows.
As the others have said once Boot Camp is loaded your Mac is a Windows PC, not different than a Dell or other PC. This is the same as saying don't buy a Toshiba laptop, we don't support them.
Sure if you need your hand held you should probably get one of the "approved" machines so when something goes wrong solutions are already known.
However, odds are that you can find a decent number of Mac users on campus who can support you.
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I'm a 47 yr old fast food drive-thru operator who lives in his moms basement. My drive thru clients (the ones who bother to acknowledge my existence) told me all sorts of good things about iMacs and told me about this nifty website. They were right, its awesome!
Thank you for the support, but what if there is a hardware failure, and dont have warranty?
The same as would happen if you had any other laptop without warranty, you have to pay for a repair. In the meantime, UVA's own supplier Cavalier Computers have an on-campus Apple shop, from which you'd be able to get the heavily discounted student cost AppleCare. So even that unlikely event wouldn't be a show stopper.
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Last time I used AppleCare they took away my two year-old Mac and gave me one of the latest ones
Yep, if hardware fails they replace the bit for free. If they don't have the part in stock you may get lucky like I did.
I am worried that when I get into computer software, that everything will not work. Like they said some programs may not even work.
I wouldn't worry about that, Bootcamp turns your computer into a windows pc, there is no difference. Also, I downloaded autocad for my intro to engineering class and everything works fine.
It will work. The people who wrote that tech note are covering their backsides on something they don't quite understand. Probably because they've never actually used it themselves.
Exactly they are spreading FUD. Fear, Uncertainty and Doubt. They don't understand it so they will spread enough misinformation about it so that you won't know which way is up anymore.
FWIW Dell won't support you either if (random application required by the university) doesn't work on their machine either.
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So what universities did you people go to, and did you see a lot of macs. And if you had a mac did you have anyproblems.
When I went to the university we used something called the CDC 7600. You typed your programs onto punch cards and read them in with a card reader. Then you could follow your job on monitors as it moved from the input queue to the compute queue to the output queue, and when it dropped off the screen your printout was ready to be picked up. In my freshman course we got one run per day, so if you made any typos you were screwed until the next day.
The lines for the keypunch machines got really long around finals time, so it helped to know the Hollerith code because sometimes you could modify the punch cards by hand.
There were a very few dialup lines into the computer, and if you were lucky you could get a 300 baud connection instead of 110 baud for a CLI interface.
The lines for the keypunch machines got really long around finals time, so it helped to know the Hollerith code because sometimes you could modify the punch cards by hand.
There were a very few dialup lines into the computer, and if you were lucky you could get a 300 baud connection instead of 110 baud for a CLI interface.