<p>To all college bound seniors, are any of you getting destop pc's? I want to save money and just get one with a flat screen so it won't be so bulky. But my friends and parents keep telling me to get a laptop.Screw them</p>
<p>Should I get a laptop or destop? I'm pretty much set on desktop though so it would help if you guys give me some advice before I pay for it.</p>
<p>the only reason to get a desktop is if you are an engineering major.</p>
<p>You can get a very solid laptop for only $750</p>
<p>DON'T GET A DAMN DESKTOP.</p>
<p>They suck, today I was working on my essay and I accidentally hit my red switch on the power surge or whatever its called and my report was gone. Sweet. Now only to spend 2 more hrs today and turn it in late tomorrow. I am getting a laptop just because desktops are so space consuming and need 300 electricity outlets. I think I have over 30 connections in my room with every appliance.</p>
<p>Laptops are more practical and you can get a very powerful one if you don't want to do gaming on it I would highly recommend it over a PC.</p>
<p>Unless you're a power-user, you're really off better by getting yourself a laptop. By power-user, I mean, the types of people who would usually build their own desktops, consistently upgrading and maintaining them. Or, they could be multimedia aficionados, encoding movies, keeping massive libraries of music and videos or they could be gamers, who just typically demand performance from their machines. </p>
<p>While Dell does offer 400 dollar deals on desktops with LCD's, they also offer 550 dollar laptops as well. How much do you really save then? Also, can you tote your desktop to lecture to take down notes? Or how bout when you get to kick back during a break and go for a cup of coffee? You can hook up to the shop's wi-fi and be surfing the web while you're at it. For educational purposes, laptops are much more functional then desktops.</p>
<p>NAM3LESS . . . thats because your deskop SUCKS . . . any advanced word program will have an auto copy of what you typed when things like that happen . . . i was going to get a laptop but after all the **** my friend went through and lost like EVERYTHING, sooo not worth it...and im too attached to my desktop . .. but HMM i'll get a free laptop from the val scholarship when i graduate high school =)</p>
<p>yeah one of my biggest worries is that people constantly complain about laptops breaking or not working properly.</p>
<p>If I don't do intense gaming, but still want a versatile desktop with about 80gb harddrive, 512mb memory, and essentials, how much would that cost me? Does anybody know a good site for racking up deals and coupons for Dell or something similar? I want a laptop as long as it is afforable and won't break constantly</p>
<p>Click the link above and customize it to what you want. It shouldnt be more than $850-900.</p>
<p>I'm getting a sweet desktop for 1300-1400 bucks... 3.2 Ghz dual core (so, equivilant 6.4 Ghz more or less), 256 MB Nvidea video card, TV Tuning capabilities, so I won't have to buy a TV, 1 or 2 gigs mem (not sure yet), 160-250 gig HD, nice soundcard from SB, subwoofer and speakers, flat screen, wireless keyboard and mouse, and it'll be in a slick case. And, I may get a copy of Mac OS X that my friend ported to dual-boot on my system :-). Double goodness.</p>
<p>I have both. Advantage of being able to drive instead of fly.</p>
<p>are laptops allowed on planes?</p>
<p>absolutely.</p>
<p>Yes, they can even be your "personal item" and not carry on luggage.`</p>
<p>laptops are a lot better than desktops in college because of sheer convenience.. you can take it on vacations or if you want to go home or to a friends for a quick weekend, you can take it to the library or somewhere else quiet when you just cant stand your dorm anymore, and they arent all that expensive. Both laptops and desktops break down, all computers break down.. just make sure you order the warranty and many colleges have a tech dept that can fix it under the warranty. Also, the new macbooks pretty much fit your requirements and with a 1gb ram upgrade and 80gb hd upgrade its AND a 3-year warranty its only about $1500.</p>
<p>To runningncircles1.... a dualcore 3.2ghz is not equivalent to 6.4 ghz, it runs the same clock speed just allows software to be processed by two seperate cores and what is the point of porting mac on a PC??? I just dont get it at all</p>
<p>Because Apple's are much more expensive than PCs.</p>
<p>no... i dont get the point of porting the mac OS on the pc, what is the possible advantage?? running mac programs isnt much of advantage without the mac hardware</p>
<p>It still works fairly well. And, there are people willing to pay for PC versions of Mac OS X, because it's much more stable than Windows, there are less viri out there for Mac OS, and other various reasons. I, myself, use Linux, but do like the look/feel of the Mac OS. I just don't want to pay $2000 for an Apple when I can get a PC for less than half that.</p>
<p>This might be a stupid question,</p>
<p>but how hard and how long will it takes to transfer everything from my desktop to my laptop(about 60gb of information)? Do I need special software or equipment to do this?</p>
<p>umm... lets see... I dont see much of a reason to load everything, but you could load the necessary setup files and documents into an external drive and then hook that up to the laptop i guess.. But if you get a mac laptop Im really not sure if you could transfer from the pc to the mac because of the different formatting and whatnot, although im sure its possible with a few tricks</p>