<p>Which is usually preferred, a desktop or a laptop and what kind of discounts does the student store offer?</p>
<p>Laptops are a little more common, and they're really useful if you like to do most of your work on the computer (you don't want to be working in your room most of the time.) A lot of people do fine with just desktops, though. As far as I know, all of the Houses have public desktops so you can get by without a computer/desktop at all. </p>
<p>I don't know about bookstore computer discounts. I do know that all students get lots of software for free (including Windows), so don't spend money on that.</p>