<p>do most of you bring laptops to class?? ior lectures?</p>
<p>im going to ualbany, and it didnt look like the desks and whatnot had electrical outlets.. any insight?</p>
<p>thats why your laptop has a battery bud, most peoples laptops dont leave there desks very often at all</p>
<p>Bring it to any lecture that is forced upon you by a professor so you can play Blackjack instead of sleeping through some two-bit talking about absolutely nothing of importance to your major.</p>
<p>Outlets are good if your power adapter isn't huge and you will be doing serious work. Otherwise you should be able to get 4 hours out of your battery (that is, if you always buy the 12" screen model).</p>
<p>If your battery can't last through a lecture, I'd replace the battery ;)</p>
<p>I've never brought mine to class. The only places I've brought it other than home are the study lounge in my dorm and the library. I really don't have any reason to bring it to class, even my lectures aren't nearly as big as I expected, and my profs would flip if we were on our laptops during class</p>
<p>I can get at least 5 hours out of my battery, bare minimum when I'm multi-tasking like crazy :)</p>
<p>But I wonder too - how often do students bring laptops to class. I'm also attending UAlbany next year, and out of all the times I've visited I have never seen a kid with a laptop in class...granted I usually wind up there around midterm/finals time.</p>
<p>I take my laptop to my lecture classes. I need it in sociology, since the professor talks fast and I'm also a fast typer. As for my physics lecture, I would say 90% of the class has their laptops to do other things than pay attention to the lecture, like play games or do hw. The only reason being our professor just reiterates stuff from the book verbatim.</p>
<p>Do other people get irritated if you're the only one with a laptop? I have messy handwriting and can never read notes from my highschool Humanities class (it's lecture...).</p>
<p>No people don't get irritated, and who cares? It's college. It's not like high school.</p>
<p>I'm on my laptop in astronomy class for no real reason otherthan to get on AIM. It's useful though in my advertising, government, and sociology classes. In those courses I have to take lots of notes off of powerpoints and it's just easier to type than write.</p>
<p>two or three students in each of my sections bring laptops. i am ok with it; just hope they're not checking their email!</p>
<p>They are, wbow.</p>
<p>has anyone noticed people with their laptops, the noise from the typing to be load it seems as though it would be. +100</p>
<p>Uhh, laptop keyboards are usually quieter than standard PC keyboards.</p>
<p>BTW, I seem to get the impression that all you HS students think that having a laptop in class isn't cool or something like that. Relax, there are so many different things that college students do that we wouldn't in high school. You guys all are used to "class rules" from HS, but that doesn't really exist in college. A lot of people use laptops in college classes. Unless you are in a small 10-15 person class, most professors/TAs won't care about what you do unless someone else is offended to the extent that they complain out loud.</p>
<p>I used to bring the laptop to high school all the time. And it wasn't just any laptop, it was one of those bright orange iBooks from 2000! Mostly it was so I could work on my papers during class on my own machine (and rig it up to the school printer :-P ). Nobody had any problems with me bringing it whatsoever--especially when I'd connect it to the speakers and blare my MP3 files.</p>
<p>Would you recommend that I get a Tablet (probably Toshiba) or MacBook (14-15 inch screens-I hate small screens) for college?</p>
<p>My current laptop's not going to last me through this year and I need a new one....BTW, I'm planning to major econ and/or finance...and I hate windows...it crashes too often...maybe that's just Acers...</p>
<p>ihateCA (lol, that's a "nice" name...:mad: )</p>
<p>Check these old threads for info on tablets. I'll add my two cents that NOBODY here at my school has one...yet:
<a href="http://talk.collegeconfidential.com/showthread.php?t=61490%5B/url%5D">http://talk.collegeconfidential.com/showthread.php?t=61490</a>
<a href="http://talk.collegeconfidential.com/showthread.php?t=48526%5B/url%5D">http://talk.collegeconfidential.com/showthread.php?t=48526</a>
<a href="http://talk.collegeconfidential.com/showthread.php?t=78663%5B/url%5D">http://talk.collegeconfidential.com/showthread.php?t=78663</a></p>
<p>DO NOT GET A TABLET. I have a Toshiba Portege 3505 tablet, and it is by far the worst laptop/tablet PC I have ever used. And in general, tablet PC's are not worth the price. The pen feature is overrated. I used it the first week I got this tablet, then afterwards, I have never touched the stylus. And writing on the screen is to tedious. Sometimes the digitizer on the screen gets f**ked up too. And generally, the screens are less than 12 inches so in your case it is another negative. </p>
<p>It is much easier to type and faster and more efficient. Why were keyboards invented in the first place? To increase productivity. Going back to writing by hand was a dumb idea. </p>
<p>Now unless you are an artist who uses photoshop a lot, tablet pc's are not worth it. Get a souped up MacBook rather than a TabletPC that has a subpar processor, dim and small screen, heating issues, and battery life issues.</p>
<p>Re:MacBook Pro:</p>
<p>Early models have high heat related problems, screen flicker and AirPort connection problems. Apple is addressing these issues so anyone interested in the new Intel MacBook may want to wait until these problems are all addressed. </p>
<p>The following link details the high heat related issues that Apple is currently fixing with new revisions that are now being put into production. Be sure to check MacBook Pro serial numbers to verify that you have the latest corrected models...</p>
<p>Re: Toshiba 3505</p>
<p>This was one of the first Tablets offered some four years ago. It had problems (as did all first generation Tablets) with hand writing recognition. Window's Service Pack 2 greatly improved all Tablet features. To be fair, Apple's implementation of Inkwell for the Newton had it's share of problems as well.</p>
<p>As with any new technology, try before you buy to see if it meets your needs...</p>
<p>many professors will put their notes online, so students often bring their laptops to class to download the notes and add their own directly to them.</p>
<p>get a laptop under 1500 (windows) because in college, itll get stolen, dropped, wrecked, water comes on and floods the doom, ect ect ect and you dont want that hapen to a 2-3K laptop, wait till your outta college making the big bucks to get a expensive laptop (right now, apple)</p>