Any med students/or soon to be nurses/docs? laptop recs

Re: Any med students/or soon to be nurses/docs? laptop recs

• cfarren

  March 2012

  I had a MAC book pro for when I went to graduate school to become a nurse anesthetist.  It was a great computer probably could have gone with just a macbook which is cheaper, but I didn't have any compatibility problems and it was easy to use and I think I had extra storage capacity.  One of my other classmates also had a macbook and we were the only ones who didn't have problems when windows vista came out.  All of our other classmates who had new computers with vista had big problems, not something you want to have your first semester of intense gradaute school  But I have had both Pcs and MAC and I will never get another PC

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• NativeNyer

  March 2012

  Thank you!  I appreciate the information.  I'll tell her to research the MAC.

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• shannm member

  March 2012

  Lots of schools including med schools and law schools will actually now make recommendations based on what their curriculum requires.  I would have her check with her school.

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• FortMyersBride

  March 2012

  I love Macs, and have had a mac laptop of some form for the last 10 yrs.  however I will echo what pp said and say that the hospital where I did residency did not have an EMR that was mac compatible.  I could log in but only use it in a very limited capacity.  It wasn't a big issue as DH had a PC desktop at the time, but it was annoying.  

  Now, a few years later, DH is able to access scans and EMR from his current hospital on his iPad.  So maybe this isn't as big of an issue as it used to be. 

  

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• JG362009

  March 2012

  My husband is a doctor and just got a macbook air -- he is obsessed with it.  His work bought it for him but he's in academic medicine so maybe that's why it works seamlessly for everything he does.  

  

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• Kadyra member

  March 2012

  I'm a doc. I had 2 Dells in med school (one was old and died) and the other I used through residency. I've been out of residency for just over a year and a few months ago, I got an HP. None of them were top of the line models, but they were all more than adequate. As for Mac vs. PC, that is a question of personal preference and most people are very passionate about it. So, figure out if she's a Mac or pc girl, look at middle of the line models and go with the best deal. 

  

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