How important is having a Macbook at a private school?
 

Im going to USC (L.A.) and I was wondering how nessesary a macbook is. I have a crappy HP laptop at the moment, and im worried that people will make fun of me/think i am poor at USC considering it is a faily wealthy school. The thing is, I love my computer and i only use my laptop for email and facebook.

I ALWAYS do school work on large screen school computers.....

do you guys think i NEED a macbook?

You sound crazy and idiotic.

i visited some friends at georgetown and it seemed like people without macbooks really stood out...in a bad way....:( i just want to fit in haha

I just thought you couldn't live in campus housing if you have windows. You are kicked out if you have anything running vista.

I don't think it's your laptop that's going to make you not fit in.

FYP for ya. :)

Ok I will try and actually contribute something meaningful here :)

I go to USC also. About 90% of people who bring their laptops to the classes I'm in have MacBooks, usually MacBook Pros. However, I don't think there's any discrimination against people who don't have Macs. Perhaps disbelief at how you can go through life without the wonder/beauty/etc that is Mac OS, but I don't think there's much judging. In fact, I'd almost say it's the opposite—some of my friends who are comp sci majors look down on me a little for having a Mac instad of a Windows computer!

Long story short, you should be fine with a Windows. I don't think anyone will judge you for having a PC, and if they are, you don't really want to be friends with them, do you?

p.s. Sciencewoman's gif it too wonderfully apropos! They are all "judging" Alexander Ludwig, a fellow USC Greek!

http://t0.gstatic.com/images?q=tbn:A...BIGMz3JxGkubJA

Nope, been here for two years, but I do enjoy feeding trolls and trying to help people! :D

Anyone who responds to a post like that is still new. ;)