<p>hey guys i have shortlisted a lenovo thinkpad t series and macbook pro...which one shld i go for
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and is windows on a mac work properly...the boot camp allows u to add XP as an OS on macs..is it compatiable with it???</p>
<p>i have a VERY expensive t 43 p ibm</p>
<p>don't get it!!!! waste of money</p>
<p>u can prob buy 2 macs for what i paid</p>
<p>i thought i was getting the best in the business</p>
<p>the truth: lap tops aren't that reliable, i wouldn't spend a lot of money on one. Get one that lasts for about 2 yrs, and then upgrade to a new one in another 2 yrs. I have a realllly kewl mac at home, and I LOVE IT......go for it. And Apple is giving away nanos with new lap tops :)</p>
<p>what about tablets</p>
<p>Are they any good for a college student? Anyone know anyone that actually takes notes on them</p>
<p>I am currently torn between a fujitsu tablet and a macbook. Leaning towards the macbook because dual boot is nice. Plus os-x is unix.</p>
<p>Last I checked, ink still makes marks on paper. I think it's more or less a universal constant. That's how I take notes.</p>
<p>very witty...</p>
<p>Whenever I take notes though, I end up wanting to change the way I organized them later, wish I could erase something, insert something, blah blah blah.</p>
<p>Actually I hardly ever took notes in HS, except for the first 2 weeks of class (to please the teachers and get a feel for the class) After the second week though, I don't think I ever took notes in any of my classes. My theory is, if it's worth knowing, either remember it or know where to find it in the book. Maybe that will change once I start classes at caltech.</p>
<p>Also, I am a flash aficionado and a photog, so being able to draw seems nice.</p>
<p>Actually I'm more or less with you. I rarely take more than a sheet of paper of notes in a class. My experience is that all notes are re-written in a Martian variant of the Egyptian hieroglyphics by the gods before finals roll around; best just to use memory or the book, as you say. Perhaps the gods would leave me alone if I interacted a bit more with my notes, but I never seem to get around to it. :-(</p>
<p>My calculus teacher was very serious about requiring us to take notes in class at the beginning of the year. We were each given a small spiral ring of some dozens of notecards. I think everyone used them for all of three weeks.</p>
<p>Most people at Caltech do not go to class, much less take notes.</p>
<p>Keeping in mind the advisements above as to whether a laptop will be of any substantial use, if you're going to get a laptop, get a ThinkPad. You don't necessarily have to spring for a T43 or T42 ( I got a used T42), the R52s are a good deal and will serve quite adequately. These things are built like rocks. I've dropped it, stepped on it, done all sorts of crap to it and it still works. You are paying extra for the durability and reliability, and you won't regret not having to make service calls when your cheap case breaks/monitor dies from too many dead pixels in 8 months/etc.</p>
<p>Get a good used one if you can. A new one is a bit much.</p>
<p>Macs are fragile and Apple customer service is awful, so if you get a Mac, be sure to get the extended warranty and a padded case. In contrast, there's almost nothing you can do to damage a Thinkpad and Lenovo will do things like send you a new power adapter overnight without asking for the old one.</p>
<p>In my experience, most people who bring laptops to class aren't taking notes with them, but they're still very useful devices because you can work outside of your room.</p>
<p>Depends on which mac you get. Powerbooks are much more fragile than iBooks. (I have no idea how the new MacBooks compare.) My poor iBook has been through the ringer -- it's bumped up against everything in my room at least twice, been dropped on the floor (sometimes from the height of 5 feet) while in my backpack many times, routinely is picked up by it's screen only, etc. and it still works perfectly.</p>
<p>The power adapter thing sounds nice though -- I tend to go through 1 a year with my iBook and they're expensive to replace. (Because of the way I use my iBook, I go through power cords much faster than most.)</p>
<p>That's why Apple has repeatedly been ranked as having some of the best costumer service of any computer company, right SteelPangolin?</p>
<p>Not since the early '90s. Lenovo's standard warranty is three years and arranging service (which can be on-site) is a matter of filling in a few fields in a web application. Plus they won't blink an eye if you've wiped out their preinstalled software and lost half the screws down the left side of the machine while using their freely available service manuals. Apple's is a year without the expensive extended warranty and you have to fight their phone service to actually get anything out of them, then wait for ages, after which they will blame it on unsupported software or out of warranty modifications. I've owned Apple products from the Lisa to the fourth-gen iPod, and studied for AppleCare service tech certification, and their customer service is definitely not the best. They're not even up to Dell. Look at all the lawsuits.</p>
<p>Alleya, the MacBook Pro line is very similar to the PowerBook G4 line, durability-wise, which is to say that they don't stack up very well against the iBooks. I think the MacBooks are similar to the iceBook iBooks, but I have yet to get my hands on one.</p>