Business & Comp Sci Majors: Thinkpad T430S vs Macbook Pro 13"

LilMoffTarkin
Wed, 22 Aug 2012 02:40:38 +0000

I agree with Toshtemirov. Get the Nvidia card if you plan on playing games or doing video editing, but the Intel graphics will be fine for web browsing, email, etc.

I majored in business and took quite a couple of CS classes. I have a Windows laptop and don’t regret it. For business, you definitely want a Windows PC. You will use Excel a lot, and Excel for Windows is much better than Excel for Mac. The other MS Office programs for Windows are generally better than their Mac counterparts.

For CS, Windows is generally better than Mac. However, most of my professors preferred Linux, so I wound up working out of the computer lab a lot. If you want, you can install Linux on any Windows computer for free (and I believe and Mac computer as well).