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MacBook for Us?
Scutarius:
HI, I have a bachelor in electronics, now as a first job I am a Technician in Sanmina-SCI and studying a master degree in electronic design, I'm a HP-tx2000 owner with the NVIDIA chipset problem, Well the question is a normal Engineer should buy a macbook for normal use?
I use/used Matlab, multisim, proteus, eagle, latex, labview, etc.
I know about bootcamp, but it is the "answer"?, Im looking for a nice laptop, and moreover a good design (I reallye like the monoblock style) also a good OS.
thanks in advance
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joelby:
I've got a MacBook. There are native versions of Matlab and Eagle. LaTeX is no problem as it was originally a Unix program. Apparently Labview has a Mac OS X version.
There's no need to bother with Bootcamp - you can run Windows simultaneously in a virtual machine for anything that doesn't have a native equivalent and it's generally fine (the more memory you can throw at it, the better).
Scutarius:
Thanks, I'll be buying my macbook tomorrow :D
joelby:
Okay, but it may be good to wait - there are rumours that a new version of the MacBook Pro will be released soon, and it'll probably have an i5 processor. It depends if you can wait anywhere from a week to six months to get a new computer!
David:
If your serious about electronics then you will want a PC. I don't want this to turn into a Mac/PC war but you are not going to get any where near the software/hardware support found on a PC.
Dave
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