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Title: Laptop for college
Post by: Banana fanna fo fanna on April 10, 2006, 02:33 PM
Hi guys -

I'm trying to pick out a laptop for college. I'm really tempted by the new Intel MacBooks (dual boot Windows XP and OSX), but I don't know how economical they are. I priced a similar system at Dell and found it to be only about $40 less.

Is there a place where I can get a better deal? Any shortcomings with MacBooks? Rosetta? BootCamp?

Thanks.
Title: Re: Laptop for college
Post by: Stealth on April 10, 2006, 02:36 PM
Be sure to consider Dell coupon codes (http://www.edealinfo.com/dell) which can often bump the price on their systems down substantially.
Title: Re: Laptop for college
Post by: Tazo on April 10, 2006, 11:00 PM
www.ibuypower.com
Title: Re: Laptop for college
Post by: quasi-modo on April 10, 2006, 11:41 PM
I wanted light + affordable + alright proc power & hd space. I got an acer aspire and spent a grand on it at the expence of graphics (but hey, its a laptop). I take it to class with me every day.
Title: Re: Laptop for college
Post by: Eric on April 10, 2006, 11:58 PM
Dell makes extremely large laptops.  I <3 the ThinkPad.
Title: Re: Laptop for college
Post by: quasi-modo on April 11, 2006, 12:13 AM
Quote from: Lord[nK] on April 10, 2006, 11:58 PM
Dell makes extremely large laptops.  I <3 the ThinkPad.
Dell has a small laptop too though http://www1.us.dell.com/content/products/productdetails.aspx/entnb_710m?c=us&cs=19&l=en&s=dhs&~page=2&~tab=specstab#tabtop
Title: Re: Laptop for college
Post by: topaz on April 11, 2006, 12:22 AM
Get a SHUTTLE! (http://sys.us.shuttle.com/)

Awesome, and relatively portable (probably not fit for notetaking, but pen and paper is better anyway)
Title: Re: Laptop for college
Post by: quasi-modo on April 11, 2006, 12:31 AM
eh... toshiba satellite is the best for general note taking because you just slap that mo into tablet mode and write on it. But mine is great for comp sci classes. I mean I can pull up the power point notes while the professor is giving his lecture (cough: start up gaim, get on facebook), and when he puts code segments up on the screen I can type them up right then.