07-24-2009, 03:17 AM
Quote:I will start law school in a month and I want to have something light which I can take to classes and libraries and on which I can run Internet Explorer, Word, Excel, and Powerpoint. Offhand that's pretty much all I can think of wanting. If anyone can suggest other things I might not be thinking of please let me know. The one I am conciously omitting is gaming and I realize that I will have to sacrifice that for portability (and price).
Good luck on your studies first off.
Slightly echoing what others have said, looking at your school and what their students are using will probably help your decision immensely.
Off the top of my head again, another option would be looking at smaller laptops\notebooks.
Potential good news, right now there's an overlap and competition between netbooks and small notebooks and if you can snag a deal, a winner is you.;)
ie: http://www.itworld.com/hardware/72367/lapt...ip-under-300-us
One possible advantage I can think of laptops\notebooks have over some netbooks is it can be easier to dock. While it's not impossible to say, type up an all nighter using only a netbook, it can get real old real fast. Though probably not a big issue if you already have a desktop and a netbook is for doing secondary duty as others have mentioned.