<p>My D was all gungho to use her laptop for note taking and that lasted about a week. She finds it better for her anyway to take written notes and then in the evening she rewrites onto her laptop. She finds that doing this is reviewing the work and understand it better. It also didn’t hurt that the battery didn’t last all day and she couldn’t find plugs in all classes to use. She is at the end of sophomore year and has no interest in carrying it to classes.
Just a side note for anyone looking for cheap way (free)to back up their child’s data we use Buddybackup and think it works great. All of her files are back up on my computer in an encrypted file and she can access them from any other computer if needed as long as I am online. It has come in handy once but the neat thing about it is that she also has 2 other friends that use it and they all back up to each others computer as well. It is safe in that it is password protected and encrypted…</p>