<p>Hey guys, I haven't really seen anyone from New Jersey here yet; or maybe I'm just not looking close enough. I was just curious how many NJ kids are going. I'm from South River (Middlesex Co.). Maybe we can even meet up one day.</p>
<p>For anyone who has to travel at least a few hours to get to CMU, how are you guys going to go home? By bus? Train, or plane? The 6 hour drive to PA was gruelsome. </p>
<p>Also, are you guys requesting roommates? Does CMU even allow it? I'm hoping to find someone with similar interests to mine over the internet, like myspace or livejournal or here. </p>
<p>Are you guys bringing laptops or PCs? Any specific kinds you recommend? I read in another post that a lot of people bring Macs, but they're WAY too slow and oversimplified. I could also bring a PC, do any of you suggest it? The likelihood of that being stolen is a bit smaller than my laptop's. </p>
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<p>Oy...what? Macs are not slow. Their clock speeds are lower than average PC clock speeds, but that's because they use different types of processor (x86 vs. PowerPC) and their architectures are different. You can't compare the clock speeds directly. Macs are not slow. Don't get that idea.</p>
<p>How are they oversimplified? Just because they're easier to use than PCs doesn't mean they have to be oversimplified for that to be the case. They're better designed. If you want a command line, Mac OS X has one - Unix. Mac OS X is Unix with a very nice GUI. Macs are not oversimplified. I don't know where you would get that idea. There is only one things Macs cannot do that PCs can: play Half-Life.</p>
<p>Kudos to briarbrad for getting a Mac and defending the platform. I'm a hardcore Mac user and zealot; as you've just seen, it's easy to raise my Mac ire. I just get really ticked off when people spout misconceptions about the Mac that they've heard from Mac haters. I don't see how you could get the idea that Macs are slow and oversimplified if you'd spent even ten minutes on one.</p>
<p>I hate macs with a passion... My school is a laptop school, and frankly, my school has more problems with the mac laptops then they do with the IBMs. The only way you could ever make me buy a mac is if I was doing video editing. And I have spent a lot of time with OS X, so I am not talking without playing with the OS for many hours (my sister has a mac, and so does my school). I am gong to get a Dell XPS Gen 2 laptop... </p>
<p>About travel, I just take the non-stop flight from Pittsburgh to White Plains Airport. It is about 300 bucks for a round trip ticket.</p>
<p>I'd likely going w/ the grueling 6 hour trip. I'm probably going to bring my PC and a slightly old fujitsu laptop. I want a thinkpad t42 or 43 though =/.</p>
<p>Yeah...some people are just beyond redemption. I'll stop with the Mac zealotry in the interest of keeping this thread tranquil.</p>
<p>I'm getting a 17" PowerBook G4 this summer. I live in Europe but I'm spending the summer in Albany, NY, and I'll be flying down to Pittsburgh from there. On a low-fare airline it's dirt cheap - less than $100 for the round-trip. CMU allows you to request roommates, and if the person you request also requests you, you're likely to get it.</p>
<p>I live just west of Phildelphia, so it takes a comparable amount of time for me to get to Pittsburgh. I'm planning to have my parents drive me there at the beginning of the year and then go back and forth by plane during the year for holidays and what not. I've heard that the train ride from Philly to Pittsburgh is ridiculously long and not much faster than the car ride for some reason.</p>
<p>I'm probably going to bring a PC desktop and a PC laptop (not that I have anything against macs ^^; ). I might get a tablet pc.</p>
<p>Aw, come on, where are all the Mac people CMU is supposed to have? (Not that my faith shall waver, despite the onslaught of evil.)</p>
<p>Do we really need an '09 subforum? We don't have a lot of threads going on here. Which colleges have the subforums, anyway? None of the ones I've looked at do.</p>
<p>Well said ThinkDifferent. (lol, I can tell you're a mac addict just by your screen name)</p>
<p>Macs all the way (as I write this on my family's G5 with 20" lcd screen).
They are just so easy to use and so powerful (and they look cool too).</p>
<p>Since Thinkdiffrent seems to know a bit:
What is the point of buying a 12" powerbook over a 12" Ibook? I know that a new Ibook should be out soon (with hopefully a better graphicscard) but I'm still interssted in a Powerbook. The only competition i have seen against the 12" is the Dell 700m, has anybody tried it? </p>
<p>Of course, that means the iBook is cheaper than the PB - the top of the line iBook (14") is the same price as the bottom of the line PB. So I think the 12" PowerBook is a little steep for what you get. It depends what you're going to be doing, really. If you're doing CS or design/art, you'll want a PowerBook because of the processor-intensive software you'll need to be running (Xcode for programming, and Photoshop for design). For majors where you'll mostly be word processing, an iBook would be fine.</p>
<p>As for the 2009 sub-forum, I'd say contacting the administrator (Roger_Dooley) seems like the best plan.</p>
<p>I just ordered my 15" PowerBook with 1 GB of ram, 128 MB of Video Ram, a 8x DVD RW, 100 GB of harddrive space and a 1.67 Ghz processor. This is undoubtedly going to be one of the greatest investments I have made in the 18 years of my life.</p>
<p>I'm from jersey and I am driving to bring my stuff, and flying back and forth during vacations. I heard fares are really cheap. I could bring a Dell XPS but i think it might be too bulky and it doesn't have great battery life.</p>