<p>I was thinking about custom building a desktop for gaming purposes and then bringing that into UCI, but I was wondering how convenient is a laptop? Will there actually be a lot of cases in which the portability of a laptop will help me?</p>
<p>And I heard it's not a good idea to bring laptops to class, because they will distract you more than anything, and it's best to take notes in a notebook.</p>
<p>Any information is appreciated! :)</p>
<p>Why choose? Roll with both! =P</p>
<p>Sitting next to your friends in class is distracting… but we still do it!</p>
<p>A notebook is also a good idea…its too distracting to study in your room. If you got a paper thats due, you can just bring your labtop to the study rooms or library. For my, I didnt find laptops to be distracting during lecture. But there are circumstances when you should bring a laptpop or not. If your lecture provides power point, then I would recommend bringing your laptop to type up notes. Or that its a math class, a laptop isnt necessary.</p>
<p>I did the same thing what you did. I built my own desktop, brought it to the dorms, however I had a hard time concentrating on my studies in the room. So on winter quarter, i endup buying a cheap reasonable laptop. Right now, I’m using both. One for gaming, and one for studies. How thid helps.</p>
<p>i think it’s personal preference on whether or not a laptop is actually better than a notebook. if you can type quickly, wouldn’t it be better to use a laptop to take notes? and like bigburrito mentioned, some classes have powerpoints and it’d be helpful to have a laptop then while in lecture to look and take notes on those powerpoints.
and sometimes you’ll want a laptop in those boring/useless lectures! lol… half kidding.
but for gaming, desktops are better anyways. so maybe desktop + netbook? i don’t know your budget though.</p>
<p>Well I already have a laptop that I’m going to be bringing. It’s just the desktop that’s in question at this point…hmm.</p>
<p>just take the laptop. if at any point, you realize you want the desktop, order the parts and have them shipped to UCI (or your house). </p>
<p>dont feel like you have to have everything figured out before you get to school…</p>
<p>I agree with flemmyd, bring your laptop. I feel a laptop is the number one thing neccessity for school and network(facebook and what not). if you havent got the parts yet then you can have it send to your dorm</p>