I am a DS1 at San Antonio and I absolutely love having a laptop. In addition to the cd with over 200 books on it, you also get printed lecture manuals for every class, so yes, you can take real notes during lecture. It allows teachers to pull the info they believe is important and teach it rather than having to choose a single (or 2 or 3) book to go by. The lecture manuals are also on the cd so when the professor talks about a structure etc you can click on the link in the manual and it pulls up a picture (the picture the prof expects you to know). Also very good for prereading dissections when you could waste a lot of time looking for a good pic of a structure you are supposed to find the next day, just click on the computer link in the dissection instructions. A med student (they still use hard books) was over studying and kept using my computer because going through his lecture notes, every time he needed to look up a word he'd have to sort through his books and then through the index and finally get what he wanted -- we just enter the word into the search box and 2 seconds later have a list of multiple text and graphics findings. It's especially good for its medical/dental illustrated dictonaries, very helpful when you need to look up every other word in a reading. Plus carrying a laptop sure beats carrying books everywhere. Also, I found that almost everything I needed printed the teachers have realized we needed printed and have done it for us - I think I printed $5 worth of powerpoints all semester but that's it. Hope this helps (although I realize you posted your q awhile ago). Feel free to email with questions about San Antonio.
