> *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...
<sarcasm> Yeah, the G5 is really more efficient and economical than the
Athlon64 </sarcasm>
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