<p>haha i love vnc. thin clients ftw.</p>
<p>would you recommend a MAC at UCB?
i am a pscyhology major...</p>
<p>Whatever you choose, make it light.</p>
<p>I recommend that all students have media access controls set up on their computers. :-)</p>
<p>Now, if you are referring to Macs, which is short for "Macintosh" (get it? Macintosh? Apple?) instead of the acronym, then yes, it's a perfectly good computer for a psych major.</p>
<p>But do you want one for any particular reason?</p>
<p>UCLAri,
Not really. My friends has a Mac and she said it lasts longer than a Windows. I just like how it is really light. But, I am planning to buy a laptop at the UCB student store...I heard it was cheaper?</p>
<p>It really depends what you mean by best laptop. Basically any laptop can run the programs you need to do work, which means your internet browser, word, excel, powerpoint, and a few others. I would either buy a vaio or a toshiba. The toshiba laptops are relatively affordable and they are just pretty stable in general. I also like vaios, but they can be quite expensive. Their screens are very pretty and the laptop designs are elegant. </p>
<p>As for dells, I think they are alright. I work lending out laptops and I work with a whole bunch of dells. Dells just seem cheap and plastiky, and their screens are dull and not very satisfying to watch movies on. </p>
<p>All in all laptops are pretty much all the same, but what seems to differentiate them for me are their screens.</p>
<p>What is the recommended amount of space on the hard drive? Would 80GB be enough or should I go for a 100GB or a 120GB one?</p>
<p>Depends on how much space you use now.</p>
<p>I tend to believe that 100GB is a good baseline. Especially when you take into account formatting and the OS.</p>
<p>What about formatting?</p>
<p>Formatting takes up a good chunk of that 100GBs.</p>
<p>What laptop specs would you recommend for an engineering major?</p>
<p>What about one that is NOT a mac that is easy to take to class. I'd also like to know if a printer is wise or necessary and if there's enough room in the dorms for one!</p>
<p>The [url=<a href="http://shop.lenovo.com/SEUILibrary/controller/catalog.workflow:category.details?current-catalog-id=12F0696583E04D86B9B79B0FEC01C087¤t-category-id=135A781CA29B4ECB9ADAD8E72CF6FD61%5DX-series%5B/url">http://shop.lenovo.com/SEUILibrary/controller/catalog.workflow:category.details?current-catalog-id=12F0696583E04D86B9B79B0FEC01C087¤t-category-id=135A781CA29B4ECB9ADAD8E72CF6FD61]X-series[/url</a>] Lenovos are pretty neat.</p>
<p>Macs are awesome for EECS majors, by the way. X11 all the way. I know this because I am an EECS major with a Mac.</p>
<p>For ME and CE, there is a bunch of software that you'll need to run through Parallels. Not sure about other majors.</p>