Macs aren't good recommendations for engineering. Engineers need specific software to run. If there's no Mac port of their software then they're stuck going to a computer lab.

For someone that knows what software they need through experience and being told, that's less of a problem. But OP is going to be starting school and will lack that experience and there's always a risk of the school missing a piece of software or a misunderstanding when looking things up.

For non-STEM this is less of a worry. Most other industries that need specific software for students are in the "creative" space which tends to be very well supported on Macs. Less software driven studies also don't have that issue for obvious reasons.

Gotta be honest, it doesn't feel like much of an apology when you just outright ignore the entire purpose of my comment in replying to a question that you asked.

You can disagree with my thoughts, that's perfectly fine. I don't mind at all if people don't agree with me. But you asked a specific question for diving into the ethics of it, and I gave my answer to it. And your response just completely sidesteps that entirely.

Why did you ask the question if you had no interest in the answer?

So I give an honest and well intentioned answer to your question with a side remark about a wallet, and you just decide to be a smartass? OK buddy.

> Is it not more ethical to use the entire animal if it is harvested?

It's a tricky question and it comes down to how you evaluate things. For me as a vegetarian, the answer is no. If you find the answer is yes, I'm not gonna stop you.

I am not interested in judging people for their own choices on meat/leather/whatever. Just explaining my own reasoning here.

If there's economic benefit to selling leather from slaughtered animals, that acts to effectively subsidize the act of killing the animals. Or put in other terms, it increases the economic reward for killing a cow or other animal. I don't know what a business expects to get out of it, so I'm just going to toss out an arbitrary number: if all the meat of a cow got the farmer $100, and you add in $10 of leather, that's that much more headroom they have to lower the price of meat to increase demand and then backfill it by getting more cows to end up with even more profit. Alternatively they can just pocket the profit from the leather and keep volume and pricing the same.

Buying leather makes it more profitable to kill the animals the leather came from; making it more profitable to kill animals means more of them will be killed.

When I buy anything now I make a clear point to avoid leather no matter what. I'll pit my sailcloth wallet against any leather wallet people offer for durability!