What Kind Of Computer To Bring To College? 1154
Elfan writes "We've discussed laptops in education before and the importance of condoms and lockpicks. However, since its not to early to think about the Fall semester for incoming freshman, I was wondering what electronic devices people found most useful for college now. How do you keep yourself organized, a PDA of some sort or an old-fashioned calendar? What to take notes with, pencil and paper? Laptop? Palm pilot? Tape recorder? Or just too cool to take notes like in high school? One laptop for everything, with a docking station back in the dorm perhaps, or just a desktop? Both? All of this is made more complicated, of course, by the lack of funds most college students enjoy."
Argh... (Score:5, Funny)
Rackmount servers. (Score:5, Funny)
tiBook (Score:5, Funny)
You have unix and windows apps in one little box. AND you can pick up chicks
You need (Score:5, Funny)
Laptops? (Score:5, Funny)
Kids these days... (Score:4, Funny)
Re:Might sir suggest (Score:5, Funny)
Personal electronics for frosh (Score:2, Funny)
Guys: Personal faraday cage.
Both: Cell phone with non-metallic case.
Re:Might sir suggest (Score:5, Funny)
Re:A big A$$ tank of a computer (Score:3, Funny)
The bigger the better. If your funding runs out due to excessive power and A/C bills, you can always live in it.
You need to work on your student survival skills (Score:4, Funny)
Re:Might sir suggest (Score:4, Funny)
I took notes with roommates and a photocopier. (Score:4, Funny)
If your roommates are not accomodating people, make sure that you're also smarter than they are so they have to give you their notes so you can explain them to them. (Fortunately, propensity for anal note taking seems to be inversely related to propensity for understanding material.)
Grey Matter and Scissors (Score:5, Funny)
EMA
Learn a lesson from PA (Score:3, Funny)
Save your money, work on the cheap, you can get the same or more accomplished and have a lot more cash to blow on the weekends.
Re:Might sir suggest (Score:5, Funny)
Re:For GVSU ... (Score:2, Funny)
Atari 2600 (Score:3, Funny)
Re:For GVSU ... (Score:5, Funny)
Re:Might sir suggest (Score:4, Funny)
Tomorrow on troll slashdot: (Score:1, Funny)
Re:Kensington Lock (Score:5, Funny)
This is for going to college -- don't you mean ". . . when you dump Milwaukee's Best on the keyboard."
"we're a fully computer literate campus!" (Score:4, Funny)
You don't see campuses requiring all freshmen to buy lightbulbs, but you don't see too many sitting around in the dark like dopes.
"Our campus is fully outfitted with MODERN indoor plumbing!"
"We're electrically literate!"
Yeeesh..... Something about learning to choose the right tool for the job and the ubiquity of computers in the US.
flipflops (Score:5, Funny)
Oh, and what does this have to do with feet?
Re:Just bring a friggin' PC. (Score:3, Funny)
Re:Might sir suggest (Score:5, Funny)
Re:Just bring a friggin' PC. (Score:5, Funny)
Real men don't post anonymously.
Re:Might sir suggest (Score:5, Funny)
I know this is stereotypically funny but when I was in college, most of the girls in my CS and math courses were not only cute, they were down right hot! I always considered myself lucky there. (not that I could have gotten lucky though... *sigh*)
Re:For GVSU ... (Score:2, Funny)
Re:follow this advice, or regret it in perpetuity (Score:2, Funny)
> you cannot play games on your computer.
But the oldest of computers that would do a student's word processing has solitaire on it.
Somehow, it worked, sort of. (Score:4, Funny)
When I got into college was when the 486 DX2-66 was the hottest thing out there (okay, so that wasnt *that* long ago, but that still makes me older than some of you, right?). I went in with my old 286, some single-digit-clockspeed clunker without a case cover (it managed to get torn off at some point). I figured I'd use it just for typing things up and email. None of the current games would run on it.
Strangely enough, I did have a copy of Wolfenstein 3d installed it, which I almost never played since it made me rather nauseous. However, a kid on the same floor happened to stop by one of the few times I had it loaded up.
From that moment on, he would come a-knocking at all times of day, all times of night, sometimes even at four in the morning, asking if he could play Wolfenstein.
"Can I play wolfingthing?!?"
"Hey, you using your computer? I wanna do that pow pow yeah hahahaha thing you know, the guys some German thing! hahaha!"
"Ah, you're not sleeping, are you? Hey, I'm gonna hop on your computer and play that Worfespang thing, don't worry, I'll turn the sound low and won't wake you up."
...and he would sit and laugh maniacally and smash on my keyboard for hours at a time. Sure, we tried to tell him we were busy, but he always found a way. Always.
...and that's how I got into computers. I spent so much time writing little executables to replace Wolf3d.exe that would make it seem as if my computer was having the most incredible, fantastic, epileptic conniptions that... hey, actually, it didn't teach me anything useful other than how to make a 286 bleep and freak out.
Re:follow this advice, or regret it in perpetuity (Score:3, Funny)
I think you misspelled "emacs" there.
Seriously, pretty good advice, but the tinker factor even with an old laptop is pretty high. If I want to waste time with a computer, I'm going to waste time, no matter how old the thing is.
-schussat
Re:Creative scheduling (Score:2, Funny)
Re:follow this advice, or regret it in perpetuity (Score:2, Funny)