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<blockquote data-quote="goretex 4411" data-source="post: 1010750" data-attributes="member: 146213"><p>Hi guys.</p><p></p><p>Im enrollling into engineering school this april. I have decided to buy a new macbook white unibody (late 2009) although my school does not recommend it<img src="data:image/gif;base64,R0lGODlhAQABAIAAAAAAAP///yH5BAEAAAAALAAAAAABAAEAAAIBRAA7" class="smilie smilie--sprite smilie--sprite1" alt=":)" title="Smile :)" loading="lazy" data-shortname=":)" /> Im a pc user switching to mac<img src="data:image/gif;base64,R0lGODlhAQABAIAAAAAAAP///yH5BAEAAAAALAAAAAABAAEAAAIBRAA7" class="smilie smilie--sprite smilie--sprite1" alt=":)" title="Smile :)" loading="lazy" data-shortname=":)" /> Thankfully, there's boot camp<img src="data:image/gif;base64,R0lGODlhAQABAIAAAAAAAP///yH5BAEAAAAALAAAAAABAAEAAAIBRAA7" class="smilie smilie--sprite smilie--sprite2" alt=";)" title="Wink ;)" loading="lazy" data-shortname=";)" /></p><p></p><p>So the school will install the following softwares:</p><p>Microsoft Office Professional 2007 </p><p>Expression Web 2 </p><p>Microsoft Project 2007 </p><p>Microsoft Visio 2007 </p><p>Respondus Lockdown Browser </p><p>Microsoft Visual Studio 2008 with MSDN </p><p>Microsoft SMS Client</p><p>McAfee AntiVirus</p><p></p><p>And of course the specific engineering softwares:</p><p>Autodesk Autocad 2010</p><p>CATIA</p><p>Graphmatica</p><p>Mathcad</p><p></p><p>Im gonna install all these softwares on windows via bootcamp. The thing is, my hard drive is 250 GB. Im thinking of partitioning 50GB for Windows XP. Do you guys think 50GB is enough to last me for my 3 years in engineering school? Or do you think 80-100GB is more realistic? Im only using windows if my lessons on a certain day requires me to use the engineering softwares or the other softwares which is not on my OS X. Everything else will be on OS X including doing Office documents.</p><p></p><p>Thanks for any advice/opinions<img src="data:image/gif;base64,R0lGODlhAQABAIAAAAAAAP///yH5BAEAAAAALAAAAAABAAEAAAIBRAA7" class="smilie smilie--sprite smilie--sprite1" alt=":)" title="Smile :)" loading="lazy" data-shortname=":)" /></p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="goretex 4411, post: 1010750, member: 146213"] Hi guys. Im enrollling into engineering school this april. I have decided to buy a new macbook white unibody (late 2009) although my school does not recommend it:) Im a pc user switching to mac:) Thankfully, there's boot camp;) So the school will install the following softwares: Microsoft Office Professional 2007 Expression Web 2 Microsoft Project 2007 Microsoft Visio 2007 Respondus Lockdown Browser Microsoft Visual Studio 2008 with MSDN Microsoft SMS Client McAfee AntiVirus And of course the specific engineering softwares: Autodesk Autocad 2010 CATIA Graphmatica Mathcad Im gonna install all these softwares on windows via bootcamp. The thing is, my hard drive is 250 GB. Im thinking of partitioning 50GB for Windows XP. Do you guys think 50GB is enough to last me for my 3 years in engineering school? Or do you think 80-100GB is more realistic? Im only using windows if my lessons on a certain day requires me to use the engineering softwares or the other softwares which is not on my OS X. Everything else will be on OS X including doing Office documents. Thanks for any advice/opinions:) [/QUOTE]
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