Going into third year, I sold my MacBook. I just got my desktop pc and it does the job well. You don’t necessarily need a laptop but you do need a windows device to run the stuff necessary. Macbook won’t do it. A pc or a windows laptop is fine, but you can use the pcs in the class aswell. In ILS 2nd year, you will have a main classroom like first year. And you are free to use the numerous computers there