Laptop for college

[Banana fanna fo fanna]

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.

[Stealth]

Be sure to consider Dell coupon codes which can often bump the price on their systems down substantially.

[Tazo]

www.ibuypower.com

[quasi-modo]

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.

[Eric]

Dell makes extremely large laptops.  I <3 the ThinkPad.

[quasi-modo]

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

[topaz]

Get a SHUTTLE!

Awesome, and relatively portable (probably not fit for notetaking, but pen and paper is better anyway)

[quasi-modo]

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.