PC or Mac for Kelley freshman?

Michhoos
Fri, 09 May 2014 14:54:16 +0000

My daughter is a current senior. She started with a PC and after orientation, downloaded the free IUware - full Microsoft Office, photoshop, etc. She started K201 and found out her Office version was more recent than what the class taught. She ended up having to use the desktops in her dorm to do all her K201 work anyway and she said it was perfectly fine - there were plenty of computers available. She saw many students bringing their macs to class to take notes and she wishes now she would have had a mac. Personally, I’m leery about putting windows on my younger daughter’s mac. She is an incoming freshman. Part of the appeal of the mac is that it is less vulnerable to viruses than windows, not completely immune, but generally considered safer. So I would hate to open her up to anything by installing Windows on it. (My oldest got a virus on her computer during her first semester, despite having protection on it, and that was a bit of a pain.) She’s just going to have to use the dorm or library desktop computers for her computer classes. Like the poster above says, it is how she will be tested anyway, so it’s good to be used to it.