<p>For those of us planning to use the Student Computer Initiative (SCI) to buy your laptop, here's preliminary information:</p>
<p><a href="http://www.princeton.edu/sci/help/faq.htm%5B/url%5D">http://www.princeton.edu/sci/help/faq.htm</a></p>
<p>It seems that OIT will be mailing us our netID and password sometime this June.</p>
<p>June?!?! Hooray! I thought it would be in July or something.</p>
<p>Word on the street is that it's late May or early June. One of the people on the Princeton 2010 Myspace emailed about a week ago, and they got a reply that said we'd be getting them soon.</p>
<p>Ah, I hope you're right, quirkily. The OIT site says mid-June.</p>
<p>Oh no!
(1) This year's offerings for Apple have been discontinued. If you are a senior interested in buying an Apple computer, we recommend you visit the Apple Education Store.
(referring to the Macbook/Macbook Pro)
Ughhh...I'll have to spend, like, $2500 buying the computer and software now...</p>
<p>Never mind:</p>
<p>Dear Jason,</p>
<p>Thank you for your inquiry.</p>
<p>The Apple computers will be available when the SCI Store opens on June 13th. It is recommended that you purchase your computer via SCI.</p>
<p>Please reply to this e-mail should you have any questions.</p>
<p>Regards,
Brad</p>
<p>Bradley Wells
Princeton University
OIT Help Desk</p>
<p>it's nice to know the prices aren't even published.</p>
<p>just buy a PC.</p>
<p>nooooooo, never</p>
<p>Prices aren't quite as excellent as I expected...I think I'm going to buy from the Apple Store instead (since I'm getting an iPod as well...$180 off of an iPod is not so bad), and get my software through underhanded methods.</p>
<p>yea well you see, it seems all these colleges want to charge you a crap load of cash on top of even more cash. :p</p>
<p>what happened to giving back to the community? you know, it's just like google... theeir do no evil is gone...</p>
<p>I heard that even if you don't get the software pre-loaded onto a new laptop throuh SCI, you can still get the Endnotes/Mathematica/Matlab software through Princeton. Does anyone know anything about this? Is the software discounted if you buy it through the school?</p>
<p>talk about giving back to the community...if duke gives their froshies free ipods...</p>
<p>then again, princeton does take a lot off the tuition, so i can't complain ;)</p>
<p>you can download matlab free from princeton (once you get on campus). Mathematica is $100, and I'm not sure about endnote, although the library has a subscription to the web based refworks, which ive heard is very simillar (and free)</p>
<p>Endnote was available through the software store for something like $18, and Mathematica is $28. You can find a link on the OIT page (--> students --> purchasing software).</p>
<p>Last year, a guy from my school was accepted to Princeton and decided to matriculate there. Not only did he get a full-ride, but also Princeton gave him a free Powerbook and Ipod. O.o</p>
<p>Princeton said that if you got excess outside scholarships, you could use that money towards the purchase of a personal computer. Does that have to be through SCI?</p>
<p>Somehow I doubt that story.</p>
<p>elphaba88: I emailed them and they said it has to be through SCI, which is unfortunate. I don't really like their configurations.</p>
<p>guys those SCI things are a RIP OFF. a bunch of people trying to get your money</p>
<p>you can get that dell $400 cheaper, and we're talking the site. i lost all respect for that.</p>
<p>Did you factor in things like the warranty and the software? I calculated the cost of the same laptop (adding 1GB RAM and AppleCare) at the Apple Store for the Macbook Pro and the SCI store came out ~$100 cheaper.</p>
<p>I'm probably going to be forced to buy from the SCI store because it's a lot cheaper with outside scholarships.</p>