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<blockquote data-quote="StMFA" data-source="post: 1264717" data-attributes="member: 203876"><p>To answer your first question- yes you will. But I believe WPI has an antivirus client that they provide free to all students (at least my friends there believe so). That said- if you were to get a virus it should be localized to the Windows 7 partition as the format of the Macintosh partition is not in a format that windows can natively write to. I'm not sure if a virus could corrupt to the boot table as I have no idea how that is set up on a mac, but given the fact that windows is natively using the hardware on your mac to run, other hardware parts could be damaged- some viruses actually corrupt firmware and such on other components (though is not so common anymore). On a further note- viruses should not be a huge problem at WPI, as many of the services are monitored and/or blocked while on campus (bittorrent, p2p, etc.)</p><p></p><p>To answer your second question- yes I several friends that attend WPI/have just graduated. You can use a mac on campus, one of my friends is a pretty big mac person, she has an ipad, mbp I think, etc. and I never really heard of any complaints from her. Plus you have to realize WPI actually has a decent amount of computer labs/terminals around campus that you can use in the event that you need to access some of it. All in all though, a mbp bootcamped with windows should do the job for you.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="StMFA, post: 1264717, member: 203876"] To answer your first question- yes you will. But I believe WPI has an antivirus client that they provide free to all students (at least my friends there believe so). That said- if you were to get a virus it should be localized to the Windows 7 partition as the format of the Macintosh partition is not in a format that windows can natively write to. I'm not sure if a virus could corrupt to the boot table as I have no idea how that is set up on a mac, but given the fact that windows is natively using the hardware on your mac to run, other hardware parts could be damaged- some viruses actually corrupt firmware and such on other components (though is not so common anymore). On a further note- viruses should not be a huge problem at WPI, as many of the services are monitored and/or blocked while on campus (bittorrent, p2p, etc.) To answer your second question- yes I several friends that attend WPI/have just graduated. You can use a mac on campus, one of my friends is a pretty big mac person, she has an ipad, mbp I think, etc. and I never really heard of any complaints from her. Plus you have to realize WPI actually has a decent amount of computer labs/terminals around campus that you can use in the event that you need to access some of it. All in all though, a mbp bootcamped with windows should do the job for you. [/QUOTE]
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