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Best College student Notebook.
« on: May 08, 2006, 01:14:52 pm »
What laptop do you guys think is the best for college students?  I am currently looking at the HP Pavilion dv1650 because I really like what i've seen of it and I can afford it.

Does anyone know anything about this particular laptop?  And what are your suggestions for laptops?
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Re: Best College student Notebook.
« Reply #1 on: May 08, 2006, 01:49:49 pm »
As I said, it doesn't matter so much which kind you get, as much as the warranty.  Best Buy's plan is about $300, but it covers anything that breaks.  On my first I had the battery replaced once, and then the whole thing conked out.  Refunded me the entire purchase price of the first for a new one.  On my way to having a second battery replacement on this one as well as getting a new screen installed.

The one I have now is an HP zd7010.  I don't recommend getting one unless you do a lot of programming; the wide screen is nice for the toolbars on the side of the Visual Studio environment.  Having the extra width allows me to have a typical screen's width in between the toolbars when they're displayed.
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Re: Best College student Notebook.
« Reply #2 on: May 08, 2006, 01:53:32 pm »
Get an apple notebook and look uber cool!
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Re: Best College student Notebook.
« Reply #3 on: May 08, 2006, 01:53:56 pm »
Quote from: MyndFyre[x86] on May 08, 2006, 01:49:49 pm
As I said, it doesn't matter so much which kind you get, as much as the warranty.  Best Buy's plan is about $300, but it covers anything that breaks.  On my first I had the battery replaced once, and then the whole thing conked out.  Refunded me the entire purchase price of the first for a new one.  On my way to having a second battery replacement on this one as well as getting a new screen installed.

The one I have now is an HP zd7010.  I don't recommend getting one unless you do a lot of programming; the wide screen is nice for the toolbars on the side of the Visual Studio environment.  Having the extra width allows me to have a typical screen's width in between the toolbars when they're displayed.
whoa!...thats alot fo replacing.

...I have an HPzv5000, WXGA 15.4" screen, overly big....awesome crisp display....I might get 2hrs of life out of it, sometimes :(


Check into averatec...g/f has one.  Its cheap & super lightweight
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Re: Best College student Notebook.
« Reply #4 on: May 08, 2006, 02:22:02 pm »
Quote from: CrAz3D on May 08, 2006, 01:53:56 pm
whoa!...thats alot fo replacing.
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Re: Best College student Notebook.
« Reply #5 on: May 08, 2006, 02:26:25 pm »
LOL

The backlight on my screen went out, :(
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Re: Best College student Notebook.
« Reply #6 on: May 08, 2006, 03:29:14 pm »
My brother got a MacBook Pro when he went off to college. It is pretty good, and I really like it. I wouldn't see the point in getting anything extra special like most people here usually do(1 GB RAM, $500 video cards, etc) since it will be mostly for schoolwork(or maybe not  ;)).
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Re: Best College student Notebook.
« Reply #7 on: May 08, 2006, 05:24:23 pm »
Well, they want me to have Windows on my laptop.  And yes, I am aware of Mac having intels now, but I kind of want just Windows/Linux on my computer.

I am probably going to stick with the dv1650, I really like it.
Quote from: MyndFyre[x86] on May 08, 2006, 01:49:49 pm
The one I have now is an HP zd7010.  I don't recommend getting one unless you do a lot of programming; the wide screen is nice for the toolbars on the side of the Visual Studio environment.  Having the extra width allows me to have a typical screen's width in between the toolbars when they're displayed.
I am going into Computer Science, so there is a possiblility of that. :)
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Re: Best College student Notebook.
« Reply #8 on: May 08, 2006, 05:34:31 pm »
Quote from: AntiVirus on May 08, 2006, 05:24:23 pm
Well, they want me to have Windows on my laptop.  And yes, I am aware of Mac having intels now, but I kind of want just Windows/Linux on my computer.

I am probably going to stick with the dv1650, I really like it.
Quote from: MyndFyre[x86] on May 08, 2006, 01:49:49 pm
The one I have now is an HP zd7010.  I don't recommend getting one unless you do a lot of programming; the wide screen is nice for the toolbars on the side of the Visual Studio environment.  Having the extra width allows me to have a typical screen's width in between the toolbars when they're displayed.
I am going into Computer Science, so there is a possiblility of that. :)
have fun!
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Re: Best College student Notebook.
« Reply #9 on: May 08, 2006, 05:43:34 pm »
Thanks. :)
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Re: Best College student Notebook.
« Reply #10 on: May 08, 2006, 06:08:40 pm »
When I go off to college I'm going to cry when they require us to install Windows programs. I'm not even going to bother with wine, probably, but hopefully Linux will have NTFS support so I can mount C: in Linux to do work.
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Re: Best College student Notebook.
« Reply #11 on: May 08, 2006, 06:15:04 pm »
They don't *require* exactly, but it's strongly encouraged with what I am going into.  But, not all colleges and degrees require that.  I know that at MU for the Journalism school they encourage people to buy Macs.. So it is different depending on the field you go into and the college you choose.

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Re: Best College student Notebook.
« Reply #12 on: May 08, 2006, 06:39:15 pm »
Quote from: Joe on May 08, 2006, 06:08:40 pm
When I go off to college I'm going to cry when they require us to install Windows programs. I'm not even going to bother with wine, probably, but hopefully Linux will have NTFS support so I can mount C: in Linux to do work.
At my university pretty much all of the machines were Windows, although they provided shared authentication with a Linux server that you could ssh to (general.asu.edu).
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Re: Best College student Notebook.
« Reply #13 on: May 08, 2006, 06:41:30 pm »
Quote from: MyndFyre[x86] on May 08, 2006, 02:22:02 pm
Quote from: CrAz3D on May 08, 2006, 01:53:56 pm
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Re: Best College student Notebook.
« Reply #14 on: May 08, 2006, 08:57:36 pm »
Quote from: deadly7 on May 08, 2006, 06:41:30 pm
Quote from: MyndFyre[x86] on May 08, 2006, 02:22:02 pm
Quote from: CrAz3D on May 08, 2006, 01:53:56 pm
whoa!...thats alot fo replacing.
I play hard.  :)
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