Dr G or Current Pratt students - PC or Mac?

CC_Admin
Sun, 06 Aug 2006 03:26:45 +0000

Dunno the percentages. I can tell you the Dean and at least one Senior Associate Dean use a Mac. For engineering, the programs we require you to use (other than word processing, etc., which are your choice) are on a Linux-based distributed, public system. And you can access that system remotely and graphically using Mac (via X11R6, which is free for Mac users) or Windows (via X-Win, which is free for Duke students) or Linux (which is free for everyone). So, it really and truly doesn’t matter for engineering. I’d say go with what you are comfortable with. Matlab 7 will basically be running (for free) on the Linux boxes and displaying on your computer - don’t buy the program yourself unless you’re planning to be away from the inter-web for long periods of time.