Apple

You should find out what software your classes require and use that to make your decision.

Although I'm in love with Macbooks, I wouldn't if I was you, some apps are available for Mac such as Photoshop , but most of engineering apps are not available and to running them you won't get the full performance from your laptop. Get Asus gaming models or Lenovo instead.

Yes

far easier to just go windows than splitting hairs wasting time with alternatives

If you’re having to worry about it I would say don’t even consider a Mac for this. Get something that will reliably allow you to go through your course workload without the need to have to depend on on-campus labs if posible.

Intels used to be able to do boot camp but I would not recommend you get an old Intel Mac. Get a a Windows machine that meets your needs.

Parallels may work but you’ll have to research all the software you need to see if it will even be able to run on the ARM architecture.

I was going to say electrical engineering you’d have 0 issues as pretty much all simulations can either be input into spice or python. But mechanical engineering, good luck

imo Mac is best for CSE students