What laptop would you recommend for college and dorming and taking it to class?

[ArcticChill]

What laptop would you recommend for college and dorming and taking it to class?

 

[Leper Messiah]

something with a centrino, fairly light.

 

[suse920]

700m

 

[DaWhim]

ibm T or X series

 

[Tu13erhead]

I no longer recommend to my college boung friends to buy a laptop. About 90% of the people on my floor (Honors floor, mind you) have never ever used their laptops anywhere but their desk. It's sad when parents spend $2,000+ on a laptop when a $500 desktop would have done the trick.

 

[notfred]

Taking your laptop to class isn't particularly useful in classes where the notes include diagrams and graphs. This includes pretty much every math and science class.

If you still want to bring it to class, make sure you get one with as much battery life as you can get. You might end up with three 1.5 hour classes in a row, with no time to recharge in between.

 

[ArcticChill]

Originally posted by: Tu13erhead
I no longer recommend to my college boung friends to buy a laptop. About 90% of the people on my floor (Honors floor, mind you) have never ever used their laptops anywhere but their desk. It's sad when parents spend $2,000+ on a laptop when a $500 desktop would have done the trick.

well, lol i want a laptop that functions and a 500 dollar one wont do the trick for me.

 

[Gunslinger08]

Originally posted by: Tu13erhead
I no longer recommend to my college boung friends to buy a laptop. About 90% of the people on my floor (Honors floor, mind you) have never ever used their laptops anywhere but their desk. It's sad when parents spend $2,000+ on a laptop when a $500 desktop would have done the trick.

Agreed. You will not use it anywhere but your room.

 

[Tu13erhead]

Take the money you'd spend on a laptop and build a desktop and you'll have a much faster and nicer computer.

 

[ArcticChill]

Originally posted by: Tu13erhead
Take the money you'd spend on a laptop and build a desktop and you'll have a much faster and nicer computer.

My dad doesnt want to carry my desktop all the way up to upstate ny

 

[Tu13erhead]

So carry it yourself.