-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 On 06/11/08 07:58, Thomas H. George wrote: > The college is offering packages starting at $1,399 (Dell Latitude D630) > and $1,499 (Lenoveo ThinkPad T61) all with 2GB memory, 10/100/1000 > Ethernet, Wireless, 1394 Port, Bluetooth, Vista 32Bit Business OS, > SmartCare/4in1 Media Card Reader and Microsoft Office 2007 Professional > pre-installed by certified technicians located on campus. Three year > warranty and 1GB Flash Drive thrown in.
Is it a requirement to have a *Windows* laptop? IOW, to "they" use Windows-specific apps for taking tests, replacing the blackboard, etc? > Money is tight, of course. If I were the student and there is a > modest-priced laptop with Debian and OpenOffice I'd take it in a flash. > I'm not the student, I'm his 79 year old grandfather and I don't want > him to start off at a disadvantage. There are certainly many college > students and recent grads that subscribe to this list. I would value > your insights. The contrarian in me would buy him a course in shorthand instead. (I remember that the very act of hand-copying blackboard notes -- while thinking about which were the most important -- most successfully burned information into my brain, and typing took too much focus away from other tasks.) - -- Ron Johnson, Jr. Jefferson LA USA "Kittens give Morbo gas. In lighter news, the city of New New York is doomed." -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.6 (GNU/Linux) iD8DBQFIT9HPS9HxQb37XmcRAhaJAKCDXY20WomVK8TnDgWCDUrZXoQCKwCgjfvA AiCZmp48ht7zkTzXDxQX5Y0= =99Om -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
