What laptop specs for these programs?

[G73S]

My mom's friend is a girl in college, she has a MacBook, she installed Windows on it to run the following 3 programs but she said when she took it to a computer shop they said they won't run on a MacBook and she needs to buy a PC laptop.

I was surprised as to why wouldn't they installed if she had Windows installed, do you think it's possible or the computer shop guy didn't know what he's doing?

1) please advice if it's possible if she has Windows on her Mac Book

2) Please advice what specs of a laptop shall I advice her to buy? would she be ok with a : A) Intel HD Graphics 4000 B) any nVIDIA M mobile graphics chipset, let's saw a GT6200, or would she need a high performance laptop like with a C) GTX 770 ?

the programs are:

pspice
matlab
codeblock

 

[darkxale]

Theres no difference as far as programs are concerned when a Mac is running Windows. You can run all of them just fine.

Additionally, Matlab and codeblock have OSX and Windows versions available. Its just PSpice that is Windows only.

 

[G73S]

thanks a lot for this info bro

 

[ninaholic37]

do you think it's possible or the computer shop guy didn't know what he's doing?

Yes. I have been surprised many times by how computer shop people will answer questions with false information (after verifying myself) instead of admitting that they have NO IDEA. Maybe they are afraid of looking stupid, this kind of deceptive behavior makes them look even more stupid (and untrustworthy) in the end.

I think Code:Blocks has a MacOS version also (maybe the others as well?):
http://sourceforge.net/projects/codeblocks/files/Binaries/13.12/MacOS/

Runs fine on my Atom netbook and 10 year old Dell laptop so I think you'll be ok.