<p>All of son's engineering student friends have found laptops to meet their needs over the past three years.</p>
<p>At my school everyone is required to buy a laptop and buy an "engineering bundle" that includes inventor, matlab, etc.</p>
<p>For what reasons might students take their laptops to class? maybe taking notes, would it make printing easier? and how available are the computers in the labs? won't it be easier not to depend on lab computers, if the work isn't heavy??</p>
<p>All of those questions are have completely different answers for each student at each school.</p>
<p>Does anybody know how student discounts work?? Are they available for int'l students? Can you get it from an apple store in any country? Online?</p>
<p>With Apple, go to the Apple Store online (store.apple.com) and scroll down to "educational store" on the left. You can follow it through from there. The burden is on Apple to check and see whether or not you're actually a student at the school, though you may be prompted for something like a student ID number. I don't remember, it's been a while since I got my Powerbook.</p>
<p>I'm not sure how it works shipping internationally... </p>
<p>I would either call them to ask or just wait until you get to the university and have it shipped there.</p>
<p>Does anybody know how shipping internationally works....can you buy a macbook pro in terms of USD with the student discount and get it shipped to your country of residence?? I'm having troubling trying to find out?</p>
<p>I would really prefer getting my laptop before I reach the university.</p>
<p>I would wait until mid-June to purchase an Apple laptop. WWDC (Apples Worldwide Developer Conference) starts around June 9 and they are widely expected to upgrade their laptops to Intel's latest chipset (Centrino 2). This new chipset should provide new features, faster FSB, better power consumption. There may be new Intel chips released too for more options. There are rumors of a bigger trackpad to better use multitouch and some rumors of a completely new look.</p>
<p>The new chipset will affect other manufacturers too. There might be discounts on the older stuff before the new stuff comes out so if you don't care about the new chipset, then good deals may be had before the new stuff comes out.</p>
<p>I prefer to buy MacBook Pros (we have 3 of them) at the store - they treat you so well there. I have purchased equipment in the past online using a homeschooling discount. They just have a little display where you agree that you're a homeschooler. They never checked. I've used the homeschooling discount and the college discount at the Apple stores.</p>
<p>@ BCEagle91,
I've heard from a lot others too about these updates...but won't the same laptop then become more expensive...like for example, a 15 inch 2.4 GHz now $1999 might become 2099 or 2199 with these updates...or am I wrong
1999 is expensive enough, don't want to get a more expensive laptop</p>
<p>The great thing about technology is that you get better, faster and less power consumption for the same or lower price. Apple refreshed their laptops with Penryn and Multitouch a few months ago and there were no price increases but models came with more disk space, more video ram and better processors.</p>
<p>With an educational discount, the price should be $1800.</p>