Any free software from UCSD for students?

leaftye
Mon, 15 Jun 2009 01:25:59 +0000

As a college student, Office 2007 Ultimate is only $60…not free, but not very expensive either. Also, you can get Inventor and AutoCAD directly from Autodesk for free because you’re a college student.

Reliability for macs and pc’s are about the same. The problem with pc’s are that vendors throw on a bunch of unstable software you don’t need or probably even want. If you get a Windows computer, the first thing you should do is use the recovery disk to perform a clean install. Then you’ll have a much faster/stable machine. It’s really a shame that vendors mess up their machines for us, but that’s just how it is.