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Originally Posted by Jon Stratis
I will caution against macbooks for FRC purposes - most CAD programs are Windows only, and the driver station is Windows only. You can do it with Boot Camp or A VM on a Mac, but that requires a bit more effort to get set up than it would if you just bought a Windows box to start with.
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That being said, once you go through the process a Mac can make a perfectly functional CAD machine-- 2220 uses a bunch of old-ish Macbooks from our school running Windows for CAD (we use Creo). They perform quite well and were free to us.
One of the old captains on our team ran Creo quite well on his Macbook Pro for the 2011 and 2012 seasons too.
My point being that, yes it's a bit more effort (and a Windows license), but if you really like macs it's completely possible to make it work.