Reasonable "allowance" for kid living away at college

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Hmmm, you must have had a Dell (having gone though hinge breaks 3 times on 2 laptops myself).

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<p>Nope, Acer. But close enough. Acer can go to hell for all I care. I paid less for my macbook pro and it's never given me problems for the past 22 months. The cable that attaches the screen to the motherboard actually physically separated from the motherboard itself.</p>