<p>any specific recommendations</p>
<p>i am thinking either a thinkpad t or x series or maybe a dell XPS</p>
<p>what do you guys think?</p>
<p>what specifications should my laptop have</p>
<p>i am paying like 53k next year for school so the lap top has to be around the 1200 range</p>
<p>bump bump bump</p>
<p>same question and does anyone use a mac for business?</p>
<p>I dont think you can go wrong with a lenovo. Look at the thinkpad T61</p>
<p>You can get quite a bit, Like a 2.5 GHz Penryn dual core, 160GB 7200 RPM hard drive, and 2 Gb of RAM for right about $1200</p>
<p>It depends. Office 2008 for Mac was crippled by Microsoft (removal of VBA from DOC files), which many businesses use. But for college it probably wouldn't matter. Just make sure that your school will provide support for Macs.</p>
<p>Go with the Mac, put Windows on it too. Boom, best of both worlds ;)</p>
<p>So if I want to do a powerpoint presentation or chare a word document for example, will I be easily able to transfer them from a mac to another windows computer and does having windows and leopard slow your computer down a lot?</p>
<p>Office 2008 is made by Microsoft for Mac OS X. However, your school might not support them. Villanova's Business School requires Active Directory installed on a PC for numerous PC only resources. Other schools, like Dartmouth, are extremely Mac friendly and they are fully supported.</p>
<p>Businesses tend to use Visual Basic Macros within spreadsheets, so it's very possible that you'd need windows (Microsoft artificially crippled office 2008 to remove VBA, it's in Office 2007 for PC and will be in future PC versions). Check with your school.</p>