Best laptops for boarding school?

<p>I think the desktops have right click mouse(s) now. And you can always use control + click on a laptop.</p>

<p>I would, but I have a desk top and my two biggest complaints are no right-click and a clunky keyboard. One, the keyboard, is fixed just by the laptop itself. But if I want a right click (I also just plain hate their mouse design. It clunky and crap, in my opinion) I'll have to go third party, it seems.</p>

<p>The new apple mouse - the might mouse - is touch sensitive so you can right click and has a scroll ball. Definitely upgrade your keyboard and mouse so that you can enjoy it more.
Apple</a> - Mighty Mouse</p>

<p>The best mouse available for macbooks, in my opinion, is the logitech mx revolution. Its cheaper brothers, the vx rev and the vx portable are also good options. The programability of the mx is fantastic, and the scroll wheel is amazing. Check it out. It requires a usb dongle for wireless connection, which is a bummer, but it's small. I have both the wireless mighty mouse and the mx rev and there is no comparison. I do like the mmouse and the bluetooth capability of it, but the scroll ball is only so-so. 360 degree scrolling is nice, but it's just an awkward size. The other annoyance is that in order to right click, your left click finger must not be in contact with the surface of the mouse, as it is touch sensitive.</p>

<p>I was talking with someone else and I remembered one of the best reasons for a Mac - at least for parents.
They now have built in camera and with ichat, you can see and talk to your kid at the same time.</p>

<p>I was out with my friends today and we were just coming out from Jamba Juice when I saw like 18 kids with Lawreceville School wind breakers.
It was so odd.
Well these kids had a bunch of laptops with them that they were using on top of a bunch of cars. The laptops were Asus. So I guess Lawrenceville kids like Asus.
I was dying to invesstigate but I really had to catch a cab to go pick something up...
Ok well. LOL
My point is the kids seemed to happy to be typing away on their Acer computers. lol
The laptops seemed very sophisticated.</p>

<p>Princess' Dad and other Mac fans -
Mac rumor mill suggests an October release of a new mac book. Nice to be able to wait for a brand-spanking new one.</p>

<p>I got a good scholarship from Exeter (not full, but over half the tuition) and they put $800 towards my laptop -- I think someone before was asking if only full ride kids get money for laptops.</p>

<p>I ended up buying a Dell Studio (15.4 inches, 5-10 pounds) with that money plus a few hundred in my savings. It's a great computer, a little bit heavy but I carried around a 40lb bookbag for four years in middle school so it doesn't bother me as much :) It also has good battery life and doesn't take long to charge when you plug it in.</p>

<p>Macs are much more popular than PCs, but I really like the Studio -- it has a lot of the same features that a Mac has: the top bar on the desktop with shortcuts, a built-in webcam, and you can install Safari on it if you want.</p>

<p>Well, despite Grejuni's hint about mac rumor mill (I did some research on it as well after your tip), decided not to wait and ordered a macbook online for niece. Andover supports macs, and decided that even though it was more expensive, cost difference over 4 years is not that much.</p>

<p>Well, it arrived today, and after setting it up for her, I have to say that it is pretty cool.....I may become a Mac convert.</p>

<p>And, also was able to get the $100 off for educational discount and the free iPod as well. For free iPod, supposedly it is only for college students or faculty (my partner is college lecturer, so I was going to use that for rebate), but I just submitted the on-line claim form, and they didn't ask much of anything. But, you didn't hear that from me. :) I think that I am going to keep the iPod for me.</p>

<p>HP pavillion dv9000 2 gb 250 ram and its a 17 inch screen. Its now on sale..mine was 800</p>

<p>Come on brooklyn
She needs the ipod more than you do....:)</p>

<p>But get yourself a macbook so you can see/message her.</p>

<p>I spent the day transferring her itunes over from her old, old computer and geting the wireless printer to work and the airport express to work. If you did not get that, you must. It is a cool thing. You plug it in, connect the ethernet and she she can sit on her bed and use the internet.</p>

<p>PD: I have a 4 year old iPod, and the one she has is about 1.5 years old, so this upgrade is going to me. :)</p>

<p>I have Dell PC laptop, and will get webcam to do video chat.</p>

<p>I have wireless router at home, so macbook should be able to connect with it.</p>

<p>I also have a HP Pavilion and I definitely recommend it...MANY laptops have a built in webcam you can chat online with, so it's not only the macbook with the advantage.</p>

<p>Hp and Compaq are the same company now, right?</p>

<p>Yeah, I'm pretty sure</p>

<p>I have finally convinced my father to get me a MacBook for school this year. He wanted me to get the school computer, which is a Toshiba or something random like that? But I wanted something better. Could anyone tell me what advantages there are in the MacBook Pro over the regular, aside from a bigger harddrive and bigger screen and whatnot?</p>

<p>a-hem. i have a toshiba and i think it is way better than a mac. i am a big fan of the microsoft programs and even when you get them on macs it distorts them. my school computer i think was a dell. the only thing the macs have going for them is that they are pretty. end of story. have you guys not seen legally blonde?</p>

<p>The macbook pro seems a bit overkill for a student computer. Not sure that it would be worth the extra hundreds of dollars over the regular macbook. Check with your school for their minimum computer requirements, and you will probably find that the regular macbook will be sufficient.</p>

<p>I think I posted this somewhere buried deep in this forum, but if you get your Sunday circular for Best Buy and Circuit City, etc., and find the featured deal for the week, you can get a totally awesome computer -- for school purposes -- at a great price.</p>

<p>C'mon...let's face it. If you are shopping now for your computer, you're probably not a power user. And if you got by up to now without a computer, you'll be able to deal with a $500 laptop, probably bundled with a printer that is good enough to print drafts of your assignments and make decent enough photocopies, with an add-on of MS Office Home and School edition (about $150 more -- though I'm a total cheapskate so I put my son on Open Office and he did just fine). Now, if you are a bigtime gamer who needs a 5 gigabit video card and joystick port and a terabyte of RAM pumping through a dual core processor...you'd do well to start boarding school by ramping down to a bargain computer and leave your World of Warcraft and Grand Theft Auto XXVI back at home, even if you'll have to go cold turkey.</p>

<p>Yes, there is also mail-in rebate. I like that deal. When I bought my laptop, I got a printer for additional $20. and I got $150 rebate.</p>