<p>I am going to do EECS. But I’ve seen quite a number of Macs and IBM and well pretty much any computer companies (HP, dell, sony).</p>
<p>for MechE, I heard Mac doesn’t support Solidwords, so if you are doing MechE you might want to stay away from Mac (although they are soooooooooooo pretty!).</p>
<p>I have a HP right now. It was pretty cheap compare to some other laptops (less than 800 a year ago (like 1/3 of Mac book pro), 2.2GHZ, 2gb ram, DVD write, webcam. etc etc)
In maybe 2-3 years, when this laptop dies, I think I might get a Sony. Macs are expensive. ThinkPads aren’t as great as before (IBM to Lenevo)</p>
<p>but yeah go to the IS&T for recommendations of configs if you don’t know where to start.</p>