 first day that I was in my intro to computer science lab our TA asked us to raise our hands basically this how I went raise your hand if you are a Mac user and I raised my hand and out of like the 25 people who are in the lab they're probably only like me and two others who had a Mac and everyone else had a PC. Now the interesting thing is is that most of my professors in computer science and electrical engineering actually had MacBooks they weren't most of them were not PC users most of them had Macs and I always found that really interesting how most of the students choose PC but most of the professors choose Mac. Now this video isn't going to be like a comparison between Mac and PC or which laptop is right for you I will give my own opinion at the end of this video if you are interested in me doing a which laptop is the best laptop for CS or software engineering majors then just comment down below compare some video and give this video a thumbs up guys this is actually like my favorite season okay fall is technically my favorite season because I think it's so beautiful my birthday is around Thanksgiving time actually I was born on Thanksgiving it's another story for another day but I love summer because you can just get up and do stuff without having to throw on 10 pounds of clothing so one thing that I learned out of the gate about my MacBook Pro that I love is the terminal that was built inside the operating system or the computer in general and the reason being is because it was very similar to the Linux machines that we had in our computer science labs so I was able to quickly adapt to learning terminal commands another thing that I love about Mac and just Apple in general is the reliability you get from MacBooks honestly they just work take them out of the box and they just work I know that a big part of choosing a laptop is budget and I understand that MacBooks typically cost a lot more than PCs however my opinion it's worth it because you're just gonna have a reliable laptop that's gonna work you know most of the time if not the whole time throughout college and to fix your laptop one thing I'm noticed is that okay so there was a time where my MacBook Pro just stopped working and this is at the end of junior year so I had this laptop for four years without any problems and I had to like fix I think it was a motherboard and Apple gave me a new display or whatever but all that only cost $250 because Apple had like this program where basically no matter what's wrong with your laptop it's just a $250 deductible that you have to pay and that was great I was able to get my laptop fix for $250 and another thing is I was like okay I decided that it was time to upgrade my laptop because my MacBook Pro was just too slow it was what 2017 and my MacBook Pro was like a 2012 so it was five years old and it was just too slow especially when it came to some of the things that I had to do for computer science so I would recommend getting a 16 gigabyte of RAM laptop if you can especially if you are doing Xcode or any like iOS development if this little tidbit of information helps at all the smartest professor if not the smartest person I've ever met in my life had a MacBook Pro and all of my favorite professors had MacBook Pros since I was an engineering student if I was gonna go with Mac then a MacBook Pro is a must-have I did have the MacBook Air for my last year of college and that was a bad experience not really because of the speed outside of using Xcode and doing iOS development but because I got 128 gigabytes of storage and that's just too small no matter what your major is unless you're gonna be using something like iCloud or Dropbox or carrying around an external hard drive every day which I wouldn't recommend because you're on the go so much in college the last thing you want is to forget your external hard drive at work for a project you're supposed to be working on or a paper you're writing portability is so important especially if you're a college student in the Midwest or northeast sort of east coast or if your campus is just big one thing I loved about having a Mac in college is that they don't weigh very much and depending on how your semester is laid out in terms of your courses you may be carrying around some heavy books so when you add the weight of your laptop your water bottle your lunchbox your gym clothes your books and any other accessories it can get quite heavy this is an underrated feature as a high schooler you really don't think about this very much because you're just walking back and forth inside the building of course to different classes but in college if you go to a school that has a pretty large campus you don't want your accessories your technology to be as portable as possible and as light as possible especially during those dog days of summer and when you're walking to info class and your freshman or sophomore your underclassmen so you have courses so you have classes all around campus because you're taking some of your genetics and it gets hot during the summertime and you start sweating and it's just a gross feeling trust me i know i'm a sweater being an apple's ecosystem another very underrated feature i know some people don't want to be knee deep into the ecosystem because you feel like you can't get out but there are some benefits to it especially as a college student being in the ecosystem is great especially if a lot of your friends have macs and iphones and ipads and if you're a non-engineering major most of your friends are probably going to be mac users i remember all the classes i will be in that were outside of russ college of engineering most of the students had mac book airs or mac book pros which was refreshing to see because i didn't really see that in engineering college as much i found so much value in airdrop my friends in iowa airdrop each other documents notes things that we needed to prepare for an exam we're studying for midterms or finals airdrop feature is really nice or let's say you're taking pictures of notes that your professor took as your handwriting is horrible like mine or they wrote something down at the end that you don't feel like is necessary for you to actually have in your notebook because you want to have it at your disposal all the time and you take a picture a lot of a lot of students take pictures nowadays of notes of assignment due dates i know i did that a lot you just airdrop into your laptop or to your friends then there's i-messaging which is dope because you can text on your laptop and it looks like you're taking notes because your professors are typically not behind you in there in front of you so it looks like you're taking notes but you're really texting your friends in this group chat that's super funny okay i don't recommend doing that because you want to make sure that you're paying attention to your professor but there's some benefits to having i-message on your laptop let's say your professor's talking about a topic that you don't really understand you can just text the group like hey i don't understand this can someone explain explain this to me quickly someone explain this to me and they can quickly get back to you and you can still stay productive without having to go on your phone e-granomics hello trackpad i love you the most underrated feature for laptops you don't realize how nice it is to have a big functional responsive haptic feedback capable trackpad until you don't have one this is the very reason why so many people love macbooks especially programmers and video editors and designers if you're an engineering major or a nurse or a business major it really doesn't matter all gonna be on our computers a ton writing papers projects programs you name it online classes just so so we spend so many hours on our laptops and our computers so you want to make sure that your laptop has good has a good has a good e-granomically friendly is that the right thing to say trackpad can make a huge the trackpad can make a huge difference in your effectiveness and having a large trackpad is just good for your wrist all in all the two macs that i had in college were very convenient they work right out of the box whether they're open box refurbished used they just work if you are considering getting a mac my recommendation is to either go the refurbished route or the open box route at best buy or micro center keep in mind if you see a good deal at micro center best buy typically will not typically best buy does price match so if you see a good deal at like bnh photo or something like that another or another reputable place then tell the person that's working at best buy that's trying to get you a new macbook about those deals and obviously you want to use those student discounts because you can save hundreds so yeah those are my experiences using a macbook pro and a macbook air but mostly in college i had a macbook pro if you like this video at all give it a thumbs up share with someone who you think my fight about find value in watching this video and comment below some of your thoughts if you're a macbook user or even if you're a pc user and some of the benefits from having a pc if you are interested in a macbook my recommendation for technical majors is to get a macbook pro that if if you can afford it that's the laptop that you should get definitely stay away from the macbook and stay away from the air unless it's 256 gigabytes or even 512 gigabytes and if you're a non-technical major the macbook air is a great great computer it's fast the screen is nice resolution is great it's portable it's lightweight and it has the longest lasting battery so that's a great laptop with that being said that is the end of this video and don't forget to hit that subscribe button if you already hit that subscribe button make sure you hit the bell so you know whenever i'm dropping a video you get that notification and you can comment first all right i'll see you all later peace