07-18-2004, 11:41 PM
My vote is for an IBook or a Powerbook (if you have the money for it)
If you wait till august, Mac puts out deals on their website for students. Last year any ibook or powerbook came with a 99$ printer, and a 200$ certificate towards an Ipod. Good deal if you ask me.
I fell in love with my (at the time) girlfriend's powerbook. It was light, had amazing battery life, soft touch keyboard, great software packages, and one hecka-of-a fast CPU. Oh, and read down to find out how it fairs against beer.
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I had a writing teacher who gave us a cd of material. We still had to buy quite a few books for class though, which he attritubted to the publishing companies hating the electronic (and highly transferable) medium. Whether this is true or not, there were too many books that were translated to pick just any electronic version. Translations are already horrible, even with decent translators.
If you ever come to Boston, I invite you to sit in on any of the BU Law School Lectures. A friend of mine swore that he couldn't find one person in the 50+ person class without a laptop out. I've never seen it either, though I'm sure its a site to be seen.
From experience powerbooks are tanks. They are well designed and easy to type on while intoxicated. Also if you happen to spill a beer all over the keyboard, your girlfriend will never find out. the keyboard is designed perfectly against leaks. There was not one resulting issue from the beer incident. And THAT is a type of computer you want for college . . . a partner in crime. :P
-Munk
If you wait till august, Mac puts out deals on their website for students. Last year any ibook or powerbook came with a 99$ printer, and a 200$ certificate towards an Ipod. Good deal if you ask me.
I fell in love with my (at the time) girlfriend's powerbook. It was light, had amazing battery life, soft touch keyboard, great software packages, and one hecka-of-a fast CPU. Oh, and read down to find out how it fairs against beer.
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Quote:What would be wondrous is if, if students are required to purchase a notebook compy there, then there would be no need for them to buy textbooks. Relevant reference material and texts would be made available via school intranet or distributed by the professor in CD copies that are copied into the hard drives.
I had a writing teacher who gave us a cd of material. We still had to buy quite a few books for class though, which he attritubted to the publishing companies hating the electronic (and highly transferable) medium. Whether this is true or not, there were too many books that were translated to pick just any electronic version. Translations are already horrible, even with decent translators.
Quote:Still have trouble envisioning a gaggle of students typing their notes during a lecture. Feels too much like stenography school.
If you ever come to Boston, I invite you to sit in on any of the BU Law School Lectures. A friend of mine swore that he couldn't find one person in the 50+ person class without a laptop out. I've never seen it either, though I'm sure its a site to be seen.
Quote:By the by, I've learned from personal experience that a ThinkPad has a keyboard that is horrible to type on when you're drunk. WebPage-Forward and WebPage-Back keys set alongside the cursor arrow keys? Bad idea. Bad, bad idea. Chances of you losing the page while trying to bactrack in a text box for editing purposes are great when you have the fuel of an XLR-II rocket engine flowing in your veins.
From experience powerbooks are tanks. They are well designed and easy to type on while intoxicated. Also if you happen to spill a beer all over the keyboard, your girlfriend will never find out. the keyboard is designed perfectly against leaks. There was not one resulting issue from the beer incident. And THAT is a type of computer you want for college . . . a partner in crime. :P
-Munk