On Jun 25, 2004, at 11:16 AM, Ian Blenke wrote:
> Dylan William Hardison wrote:
>
>> Spake Larry Sanders on Friday, June 25, 2004 at 12:27AM -0400:
>>
>>> My son will need a laptop when attending Tufts Univ this fall.
>>> We are thinking of an Athlon 64 based [snip]
>>>
>> and he can use the waste heat to cook? <g>
>>
> eMachines has some incredible prices on Athlon 64 laptops, though I've
> never been much of a fan for the quality of their hardware.
>
> For me, laptop size and battery life are key shopping points. If it's
> too big and bulky to carry all the time, or the battery life is so
> short that it makes using it on the go a futile attempt, I will never
> use the machine.
>
> For a college student, I would also worry about securing it (theft is
> an issue, sadly). Something that small and valuable is a target.
*cough*powerbook*cough*
Seriously, the ibooks are darn affordable and really nice machines now
that OS X is BSD-based. Like everyone else is saying, there's no need
to buy a laptop with a CPU bigger than your head if he's mostly writing
papers. (And if he's engineering, buy him a honking desktop he can
keep in his room and a nice cheap laptop for carrying to class to take
notes. A laptop is never going to be as powerful as a big workstation
anyway.)
And, hard as it is for me to say, macs are a damn sight easier to a)
find, and b) get to run something other than Windows, compared to a
linux laptop...
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