College laptop...
 

So I had my college orientation this past sunday and monday at James Madison University. I needed a laptop since my laptop is too old and I dont want to lug around my desktop. So my dad and I were in the bookstore looking at laptops, and I finally came to the decision...do I want a Dell or a Mac? I've always liked the looks of macs, especially the laptops. I really dont like Dells unless they are the XPS series, and these definitely werent. My dad is a really educated guy who knows a lot about computers, unlike most of my friends' dads, and his computer knowledge was passed onto me through my life... so he let me choose whichever I wanted, and the price didnt really matter...So I chose a Macbook pro. Here's the specs...
15.4 inch screen
2.16 ghz
2 gigs RAM
100 gig hard drive
ati radeon x1600 256mb card

So, Im excited to get it in the mail and start getting used to the feel of a mac. I know a lot of things (games mostly) are compatible with macs these days, and if not i can get a windows emulator or even put windows on the mac. So, opinions? comments? Am I going to regret the decision? Keep in mind this is a college laptop, which means I will use it mostly to do schoolwork or procrastinate schoolwork with AIM and facebook.

Did you get one of the new intel chips?

Ever since they introduced those, i've been heavily considering getting a mac myself since it seems the major gaps between Macs and PCs are starting to get closed.

Dont think yo ucan put windows on a Mac? Judas might know.


PCs 4 lyfe though.

Check into seeing if Microsoft Office Onenote works with mac's. It's an awesome note taking program that will help you alot in college.

I should look into that, I have always used word....

http://www.evernote.com/en/

Onenote is fucking expensive. This is 35 dollars

since when do we pay for programs?

http://katz.ws/search/?q=office%20onenote

ROFFFLES!


This is why i love you Anti

my friends all got macbooks. They are fools.

nice.

macbook can run windows.

you should have never bought it from the bookstore dude. They tend to rip you off with computers and tech support...One general rule about college, or at least JMU is try to avoid buying anything at the bookstore, you can almost always find it somewhere else for a lot cheaper. Also, I'm not sure you're gonna be able to play with a laptop...

^^ maybe not true. apple probably has something worked out with the uni. i know for certain you can get educational discounts if you buy thru apple ( which dont amount to too much , but is still something ). macs are already pretty expensive. if the bookstore hicked them up anymore theres no way in hell theyd sell them because people would just go apple.com to buy instead.

: youre gonna be good with games since the macbooks run windows and windows programs ( windows games ).

that's the way it was last year when I looked at comps at the James Madison bookstore....

well that sux.

you shouldve looked on apple.com then , you mightve saved a couple of hundred dollars.

*sigh* whatever happened to taking notes with a pen and paper?

thats how we do it, we aren't allowed to bring labtops, cellphones, or any electronic devices into classrooms...and really its not that big of a deal.

honestly, taking notes by hand make it alot easier imo. A lot of professors even put up their powerpoint lectures on websites so you can download them and print them out to bring to class. Plus, it's a pain in the ass to boot up your pc before each class.

typed 70-90wpm vs. written 30wpm. when you get a prof that fires off bullshit at rapid fire typing pays off.

Dude hellooooooo. You just close your laptop and it goes to sleep, when you open it again the screen magically pops right back up. happy:

[quote=Milla]Dude hellooooooo. You just close your laptop and it goes to sleep, when you open it again the screen magically pops right back up. happy:[/quote:0d6b6]
rofl

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you obviously dont know how to take notes... you dont write down everything the guy says... you write down the main ideas and in abbreviations. If you have to type at 70wpm while taking notes, you suck at it. Last semester I had a 90mintute/day history course and only used 2 pages front and back per day.

You know what, after about 10 mins of taking notes like that juju, i want to start drooling all over my fucking desk. Than i can never remember wtf i was writting because i can never remember what the abbreviations stood for.

I should stick to killing people full time, because i wont be an engineer, thats for sure.

haha, well I dont have that problem happy: the_finger:

Nothing like studying for a test with my notes and having no idea what you wrote because you dont remember what the abbreviations meant. lol