<p>Only get a laptop if you're going to be on the move. The biggest advantages that I see are mobility (you can take your work to the library, the coffee shop, even the park) and the small space it occupies.</p>
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Definitely NOT worth dling movies/music in schools anymore. They are really cracking down on it all over. My school was one of the first waves of schools that had a lot of students busted for dling movies/songs/tv shows/etc.. etc... over kazaa/limewire/i2hub
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Downloading or uploading?</p>
<p>Laptops give you compact portability, and nothing more when compared to desktops. If that is not your first concern with your college PC, do not get a laptop.</p>
<p>Gillespie20: If you have to ask here, you probobly shouldnt be doing it...</p>
<p>It looks to me right now like TV shows are the mildest of all offenses (hell, you could just turn on the TV to watch them or set your VCR right?) but because they generally come from the same sources as more disputed material like music and movies, the colleges tend to block htem just the same. </p>
<p>Depending on what it looks like next year, I may have to set up a proxy at home for bittorrent (it will be slow thanks to my upload but I dont download that much "bad" content).</p>
<p>Or else, I am just going to have to suck it up and find $50 a month for cable internet in the dorm room.</p>
<p>can they block more than just specific ports (I know they could just limit bandwidth in general), because many BT clients can set specific or even random in a large range</p>
<p>Thats what I was wondering, but depending on the network configuration you might not be able to use those ports (unlike the other P2P networks, BT almost always requires port-forwarding).</p>
<p>You could probobly run it on the IRC ports. Most universities block IRC for all users (because virus's use it) and unblock it on request because those actually interested in using IRC are probobly beyond being the host to a bunch of virus-bots.</p>