<p>I've decided to purchase a Mac for college (still deciding between the 12" and 15" Powerbook). Right now, I rely heavily on GoBinder (gobinder.com) to organize all my classes, take notes, and study for tests. I noticed they don't support Apple's operating system, OS X.</p>
<p>Can anyone recommend some good alternatives to GoBinder that work with my Mac?</p>
<p>Also, do many people take notes on laptops in college? B/c here in my HS, I'm one of the few. I'm hoping in college, more students will. Then we can share notes electronically and stuff...</p>
<p>Thanks.</p>
<p>Not many students do take them on laptops (many professors do provide digital notes though)</p>
<p>and go for the 15inch powerbook. The 12 is kind of a joke (it used to really be but it is still just kinda weird)</p>
<p>There are rumers of microsoft bringing OneNote to the mac (also it looks like gobinder is testing the waters) and Word 2004 apparently has notebook mode to make it kind of like onenote.</p>
<p>If you're a happy Gobinder user, why switch to a Powerbook? </p>
<p>Gobinder's website has a section for Mac users to vote for a Mac version. Remember, Apple has only a 2 or 3% share of the US computer market. Small software companies have to decide which markets to serve if they want to make money.</p>
<p>OneNote is an excellent program with a great audio/video capture feature, but it's no where near as full featured as Gobinder. As Ottothecow noted, MS is thinking of porting over OneNote to the Mac, but nothing specific yet.</p>
<p>A 12" Powerbook runs around $1500. At CompUSA, a Toshiba M205 Tablet PC cost $1300. If you like Gobinder with your Windows based laptop in HS, you'll love using it on the Toshiba with ink capability.</p>
<p>Since i have a 12" ibook g5 i use Mac OS X and i used Microsoft Student Edition. Microsoft Word has this new thing that gives the illusion of a notebook, i only use it for notes since i am not in college yet.</p>
<p>They would probobly switch to a powerbook because they would love computing in general much more on the powerbook than on the toshiba.</p>
<p>Though looking for good prices is always good...a really good laptop must be an investment. Apple and IBM are the best manufactures and yes, you must pay for it, but it is worth it--those things are WELL BUILT.</p>
<p>As defiantRose mentioned, the MS Word notebook is essentially a partial port of onenote with more coming in the future (and go to the gobinder site and tell them you are interested). Apple may only have a small market share, but that includes massive corporations with many PC's; on a college campus, that gap isnt as big.</p>
<p>why not just get VirtualPC and use it from there?</p>
<p>You could run in Virtual PC mode, but Windows applications will run more slowly unless you have lots of ram and a fast processor. If you're intending to run Gobinder on a Mac, then you need to buy one with lots of memory 512/1 gig and the 1.33 processor. </p>
<p>Even then, Gobinder's true potential shines when running with a Tablet PC which allows you to capture your notes in your own handwriting and more. So until a Mac version comes along, it's like running a Ferrari with the cheapest gas you can find. The Ferrari might run, but what's the point? </p>
<p>If you're a math student, look at Xthink.com's Mathjournal program. The program only works with a Tablet PC. You "write" down the math equation on your screen and click for a solution. Until Apple produces their own Tablet PC, there's no way to run this innovative software without a digitizer screen...</p>
<p>I use an iMac G5 at home and love it to bits. Everything just works! No viruses, spyware, etc. It's made my computing life so much better. GoBinder is great, but I wouldn't trade using GoBinder on a PC over using a Mac.</p>
<p>I hope that made sense. I guess for now I'll just stick to MS Word with its journal feature.</p>