well, as you prolly have figured out, my pc peaced out on my the other month and im in the market for a new computer. my dad suggested today that i might want to get a laptop.

thought about it, didnt think it was a bad idea. ill probably be off to a college within the next year (lets ****ing hope so, right) and it would be nice to have i guess.

anyways, what is your preference? ive always preferred desktops to laptops, but a laptop is seeming very tempting right now. any recomendations for a laptop? should i get an apple?

 

just make sure your college doesnt make you buy one of their's. my school gave us minimum requirements for our laptops and i ended up buying one from them.

 

Dell.

 

i was thinking of going to bestbuy or compusa or circuit city to buy one. my friend got his there, and when it broke, he brought it back and they swapped out the whole motherboard for him and got it back to him within like 2 or 3 days. seems like an easy way to replace anything that goes wrong with it by chance

 

why get a laptop? i would just buy a decent desktop with a LCD monitor.

 

ditto.

 

laptops are very functional in class i'm actually posting from class at the moment. I don't write legibly and i can type 10x faster than i can write so typing is always a plus.

 

I went through school up until about a week and a half ago without a laptop. I would say that it is definitely helpful having in class either for typing notes or doing "research". Our campus has been wireless since I was a freshman and it is helpful having the internet to look up things that the professor just boggles your mind on...or to pass time in a boring intro course