<p>Like many others, I took advantage of Apple's BTS promotion and received a new MBP and the $100 gift card. I'm going to buy Microsoft Office from my school and set aside $30 of the gift card for the Lion upgrade. As for the rest, though, which applications would you guys suggest on purchasing? Also if there is a certain application that costs 70+ dollars but would be worth the cost, I would like to know about them as well. Thanks!</p>
<p>It depends on what you’re going to school for. You might consider part of the Adobe Design Suite (Photoshop, etc) if you’ll need to do any design work.</p>
<p>An app that I didn’t pay for but absolutely love and use all the time at college is Evernote. It’s a great free (with minimal ads) note-taking app that you can cloud-sync, so you can access your notes from anywhere (another computer, iPhone, etc).</p>
<p>(Also remember that if you bought your laptop after June 6th, you get Lion for free)</p>
<p>Lion is supposed to be free in July for a new Mac.</p>