<p>I just ordered an Alienware M14x laptop (i7/12 GB RAM/750 GB/Nvidia GeForce GT 650M for you gamers :p) for college next year. Anyone with Alienware laptop, how heavy is the laptop? Do you think it's manageable to carry around? Because from the pictures, it looks pretty heavy!</p>
<p>What laptops do you have/are going to buy for college?</p>
<p>It depends on where I go. If I end up at St John’s, for just $400, I can get a Mac and that’s what I’ll do. If not, I’m taking my mom’s computer to college. It’s a Toshiba. My mom is a tech geek, and has told me it is essentially the next best thing (compared to Macs). I’ve used it a few times and it’s reallllly nice. It’s much faster than the HPs I’ve had.</p>
<p>It’ll be heavy, but manageable. </p>
<p>[Alienware</a> M14X for a College Student](<a href=“TechnologyGuide - TechTarget”>TechnologyGuide - TechTarget)</p>
<p>No idea what i’m getting next year. Probably will keep my Samsung Series 9.</p>
<p>My High School gives out Lenovo x201i’s</p>
<p>Paired with OneNote, they’re amazing machines. Extremely long battery life, pen input (with an eraser-thingy) turn around and snap down to lie flat, keyboard… OneNote takes a bit to learn, but once you do, it’s really great for taking notes.</p>
<p>Not exactly pretty, but otherwise, what’s not to like?</p>
<p>Google “MIT blogs laptop.” There are a few good posts out there that can help you out.</p>
<p>I’m planning to get a toshiba intel 3rd gen i7 processor, 750 gigs of memory , 8 gigs of ram, windows 8 computer but I’m going to remove windows from the system and replace it with OSx mountain lion I believe. Windows has a ton of problems; it’s systems always get slow and it runs a ton of junk in the background 24/7, Mac has the better processor but PCs are way more for much less: also I’m pretty sure the OSx is <$30 so it’s a pretty amazing deal.</p>
<p>OSX is proprietary software. It is illegal to download it on a PC, and it’s not nearly as simple as popping in an OSX disk. Macs and PCs share the same chip architecture, but that’s about it.</p>
<p>With those specs your computer should be fast for 3-4 years. If you replace it with an SSD, I don’t see it aging anytime soon.</p>
<p>I’m actually going to not get a computer, I’m going to get a tablet. The Asus transformer infinity. I can use it as a tablet and when I need to type I can put it on the keyboard dock, it adds 7 hours of life and has USB ports.</p>
<p>Thanks cc123 for the link.</p>
<p>Looks like it’ll be pretty fine, I’m planning to use digital textbooks for most of my books on my iPad to cut down the weight.</p>
<p>Well You can buy it online from the Mac store… And I already have one computer like the one I just talked about… So… Not so sure about what you’re saying</p>
<p>I wish I could get a Mac or the Surface…</p>
<p>I’ll probably get a Chromebook, and save money.</p>