<p>Does anybody know if any of the UC (specifically Berkeley, Los Angeles, San Diego, Santa Cruz, and Davis) engineering schools/departments require a specific computer or type of computer? I was going to buy a nice MacBook Pro, but my parents just asked if I might need a PC (I hope not…) and so I thought I’d check here.</p>
<p>Thanks!</p>
<p>I you’re electrical engineering and you need to take computer science, then yes, you do need a PC so that you can run a compiler. I don’t think there’s any compilers on osx that i know of.</p>
<p>Never mind, on second thought, there are a few out there.</p>
<p>Thanks for the info!</p>
<p>For the love of God… don’t get a mac. PC FTW</p>
<p>Any will do with decent specs. Even if you don’t bring one, they have labs with PCs/Macs/Linux boxes set up around campus that even provide a programming IDE to work with.</p>
<p>OSX obviously will have a compiler – c’mon, it’s based off bsd. </p>
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I’m not speaking as a mac buff, i’ve been programming/developing on a PC for many years now. However, it may be possible that Mac’s new intel based architecture systems will let users run os-x and windows. Mac may be “ftw” afterall.</p>
<p>“I don’t think there’s any compilers on osx that i know of.”</p>
<p>w.t.f?</p>
<p>Your mac should be fine.</p>