Laptop recommendations
Hello all,
I am an incoming summer 2024 intern for S&T; I was wondering if I should get a windows laptop or upgrade my MacBook to better prepare for internship and full-time. I would appreciate any advice.
Thank you.
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It won't matter because you'll be in office 100% of the time.
I see. Do you have any tips on how to better prepare for the internship? I was thinking of buying windows because it would be better to use excel with windows?
Yes, that is true, Excel is better on windows. I've never done an S&T internship so can't tell you how much of a part Excel actually plays (I wouldn't think it was a lot).
I wouldn't buy a whole laptop just to practice some basic excel functions. If you do decide to, there are a million threads on laptop recommendations.
Work in trading, done SnT internship. I have both Mac and Windows personally.
My recommendation: It doesn't matter. You will use the company laptop anyway. For your personal laptop just use whatever you like/feel comfortable using. Sure maybe it is marginally better experience using excel on Windows and maybe you can argue you will be more used to it by the time you are using company laptop. But are you really buying a personal laptop to "practice excel"? Fwiw, the MS suite experience on Mac is fine nowadays and a Unix based operating system is good for my coding experience. And I personally probably do 45% excel, 25% Python at work so it helps.
All these is to say: The laptop choice is not gonna provide meaningful difference to "prepare for internship," just pick what you like.
Oh if you like gaming tho pick a nice PC.
Thank you so much for your insights. I appreciate it. I do have a bit of a coding background. Do you have any recommendations or tips on self-studying before the summer internship? I really want to do well.
Don’t get a MacBook if you use excel often
Bloomberg runs like ass on macbook, you have to run it through a browser viewer because the application isnt supported on macOS - if you plan to run bloomberg from your personal whenever you're out of the office, make it a windows
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