<p>which laptop is the best for college?</p>
<p>Mac’s are great, but you could get wayyy more bang for your buck with a PC. Personally, I converted to Mac when I could afford it. I went through my undergrad and half my grad years with a PC.</p>
<p>900 bucks for a macbook gives you a great deal. Worth the money, if you ask me. With windows you pay the difference with virus programs and repairing it.</p>
<p>Get a MacBook. Also, wait until mid-late summer to purchase it. For the last several years running Apple has had an annual promotion for college students in which you buy a Mac and get a free iPod (last year a choice of the iPod nano or the iPod touch). Even if you already have an iPod (who doesn’t?) it’s good because you can either sell it on eBay (Apple stuff holds its resale value), or upgrade to the next-generation iPod touch, which gives you all the App Store awesomeness.</p>
<p>Apple does NOT hold retail value, at least not in my experience. If it held retail value why would you bother with eBay?</p>
<p>Alienware =)</p>
<p>I never had one PC crash on me.</p>
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<p>huh? I said resale, not retail. And eBay is precisely what I meant. I could put a 4 years old PowerBook on eBay and get a healthy chunk of change compared to what a 4 year old Dell would fetch.</p>
<p>sorry, my bad. I know people who have bought 1600 mbp which have like 4gig ram and really nice, not sure where but if it is on eBay then idk.</p>
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<p>That was more true for the old “regular” macbooks which had an Intel integrated graphics processor that was crap (but that still made them perfectly fine for all non-graphics software and watching movies). The new MacBooks have an Nvidia 9400M graphics processor which, unlike Intel ones, does not suck. I have it in my “regular” MacBook and I was able to run GTA IV (a rather graphically intensive game) just fine.</p>
<p>I’m getting a macbook as part of a scholarship, but if I were to buy my own, I wouldn’t get a macbook. Personally I’ve never had a virus, so I don’t have any hate for PCs.</p>
<p>Lenovo. Hands down.</p>
<p>Buy Apple only for the brand name… It’s like buying Harvard. They rip you off on the price for a reason and you are not getting the same performance you receive at a similarly priced model PC system.</p>
<p>Get XPS M1330 or XPS M1550 from Dell. </p>
<p>lightweight, portable, VERY strong performance (mine is a 4gb RAM, 256MB graphics, 2.4ghz duo core, 15" inch screen with webcam + finger print reader, and 200 GB Harddrive, and it’s VERY VERY lightweight) and it’s affordable too.</p>
<p>Totally blows Apples out of the water in terms of what you will ultimately be working with. Apples do win on the brand name side… lol.</p>
<p>I had an HP laptop that was horrible. Then, I recently got a macbook.I was hesitant to, because I have only had PC’s, but it’s great. It is pretty basic, but come with a lot. You can buy the programs if you want. I also have had a LOT less problems.</p>
<p>Find out from the University Bookstore which laptop they recommend for your major. Art students vs engineering vs whatever. Then buy the laptop from the university bookstore loaded with the software they recommend for your major and configured for their campus wireless.</p>
<p>You should find out what you want to do with a laptop before diving in and buying anything. And your school/college/uni may have some rules on what they would like you to use, together with discount software perhaps. Especially if an arts/music college.</p>
<p>Don’t get sucked into the Mac vs PC debate. Can be worse than religious arguments. :)</p>
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<p>Incidentally, BMWs cost more than Hyundais.</p>