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[drpduck]

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So I'm thinking about getting a laptop for next year during my post-bacc, but I will also be applying to dental school again and don't want to buy another one for dental school.

So my question is....which schools require you buy their laptops? Obviously BU comes to mind....but are there any others? (i'm applying to BU, Tufts, Temple, UMaryland)

Thanks!

 

[charmstot]

So I'm thinking about getting a laptop for next year during my post-bacc, but I will also be applying to dental school again and don't want to buy another one for dental school.

So my question is....which schools require you buy their laptops? Obviously BU comes to mind....but are there any others? (i'm applying to BU, Tufts, Temple, UMaryland)

Thanks!

UNC requires you to buy their laptop!

 

[mvs04]

a $2k IBM seems to be a shared laptop at many of the D schools that require them.

 

[Jess_SB]

Pacific requires us to buy their laptop as well.

 

[spc213]

CO and AZ both require one.

At CO, you have to buy theirs (Apple).

When I visited AZ, virtually everyone in the 1st year class had the same one that you could buy through the school. You weren't required to buy "their" Dell, but the cost was reashonable and the school's IT staff has certified Dell technicians, so it doesn't seem like it's worth it to find something else. I'm sure Gavin will square me away if I am incorrect.

 

[ScubaDr2B]

Buffalo requires you to buy theirs, you can choose between a Dell or a Mac.








U of Buffalo School of Dental Medicine Class of 2009

 

[gatorchc27]

Anyone know anything about laptops at UF?

 

[IcemanDDS]

I recently bought a Gateway M210 lappy for my post-bac. If you really want or need a laptop, dont worry about schools wanting you to buy theirs. If you get in one of those schools, simply sell yours and buy theirs. Wouldnt worry too much about that. If you need one, get one. I did 👍

 

[ISU_Steve]

My fiancee was reading this thread over my shoulder and her comment was "If they were going to require me to get a Mac, I wouldn't apply there." LOL

I don't like them either but I would not change my desire to apply somewhere just because of them.

 

[jiffbedgerson]

My fiancee was reading this thread over my shoulder and her comment was "If they were going to require me to get a Mac, I wouldn't apply there." LOL

I don't like them either but I would not change my desire to apply somewhere just because of them.

Ouch, I'm using Mac right now , I hope this doesnt mean I cant get a woman to marry me , I love Macs, I'm trying to figure out if Temple has a preference, unfortunately, they probably want us to have Microsoft cpu's, oh well there's always LINUX

 

[Pikeyman]

So I'm thinking about getting a laptop for next year during my post-bacc, but I will also be applying to dental school again and don't want to buy another one for dental school.

So my question is....which schools require you buy their laptops? Obviously BU comes to mind....but are there any others? (i'm applying to BU, Tufts, Temple, UMaryland)

Thanks!

Get into dental school first. Can purchasing a laptop wait until you get into one?

 

[wammmy]

Ouch, I'm using Mac right now , I hope this doesnt mean I cant get a woman to marry me , I love Macs, I'm trying to figure out if Temple has a preference, unfortunately, they probably want us to have Microsoft cpu's, oh well there's always LINUX

I happen to be a mac user as well, and love them, to each his own.... but it did take a lot of intense sweet talkin to get a girl to marry me, and my mac habbits were her biggest concern, so do becareful.

 

[onetoothleft]

I happen to be a mac user as well, and love them, to each his own.... but it did take a lot of intense sweet talkin to get a girl to marry me, and my mac habbits were her biggest concern, so do becareful.

My laptop is a Mac. Luckily at CU they only care if your laptop has a power button because I don't want to switch back. Macs are the best!

 

[amartins02]

iBook Here!! This is my first one and i have had it about 2-3 months and it hasn't given me one problem, error, virus, nothing. Just 1 maybe 2 pop ups. That's a breeze compared to the PC which was like playing a first person shooter closing all the pop ups.

 

[IcemanDDS]

That's a breeze compared to the PC which was like playing a first person shooter closing all the pop ups.

 

[Tzips]

I'm using my iBook now, and I love my cute little computer - one of the major bummers for me about UMDNJ, where I'm going, is that they require one to buy their Dell laptop 🙁 . I WISH they had a Mac option - I've become addicted, and once you've had it's very hard to switch back to the old crash-and-burn world of MS...

 

[edkNARF]

Once you go Mac, you can never go back.

 

[amartins02]

Its true. They are great computers. What is up with schools requiring the purchase of specific brands. Do they get a kickback like discounted support or something? I understand it makes it easier for the CIS dept to support students if all the computers are the same but there must be something in it for them.

 

[wammmy]

Once you go Mac, you can never go back.

LOL,
That was the funniest thing I've heard all day if not all week.

 

[ISU_Steve]

LOL,
That was the funniest thing I've heard all day if not all week.

Yeah, I've worked with Macs before- my ex-gf swore by them. Unless they've seriously improved in the past three years, I think I will deal with the occasional lock-up of my Windows based computer. 🙂

 

[DrTacoElf]

yeah macs are very pretty and cool until you try to do anything and discover that 1/2 of the internet isn't formatted for them and their browser isn't fully supported (wonder why they don't get popups?).

Good Article
http://www.computerweekly.com/artic...liChannelID=22&liFlavourID=1&sSearch=&nPage=1

 

[DDS2BE]

Once you go Mac, you can never go back.

Don’t you have a spelling error?! 😉

 

[amartins02]

Not really. I don't have any formating errors with my browser. Think of all the web servers out there that are running unix. Mac is kind of like a mix of unix and linux i guess you could say. I think that years ago that macs got a bad rap and I personally didn;t like them bak then. But now I think its the best thing since sliced bread. i have not had a single problem with my laptop.

 

[DrTacoElf]

Not really. I don't have any formating errors with my browser. Think of all the web servers out there that are running unix. Mac is kind of like a mix of unix and linux i guess you could say. I think that years ago that macs got a bad rap and I personally didn;t like them bak then. But now I think its the best thing since sliced bread. i have not had a single problem with my laptop.

Just yesterday i was attempting to place an order on newegg from a mac. Guess what i couldn't complete it because IE kept saying i had unfilled fields when this wasn't the case so i had to go to a pc to submit my order.

Taken from the mac forums
So Google released a handy tool that notifies you when you have Gmail, without having to login manually, its called Gmail Notifer. I use a Mac, so for us Apple users, we were out of luck. Not only that but gmail doesn't fully support the mac browser so there are many things you can't do. IE select all messages, star messages.

With a mac you run into annoying sitiuations like this time and time again. With pcs its never an issue. Macs main marketing revolves around spyware and popups being eliminated when this isn't an issue for a properly configured PC. The mac browser has a huge lag too compared to windows IE. And i've used many macs several of which where supposedly high end having fast processors and over 1GB of ram. Guess what the lag was still there. On top of that many times specific devices such as wireless mice don't have mac drivers so certain functions such as scrolling don't work.

 

[Pikeyman]

My first time using Mac to browse SDN.

Even SDN looks better on Mac than Windows.

F'ck Bill Gates and Viva Steve Jobs.

 

[onetoothleft]

Just yesterday i was attempting to place an order on newegg from a mac. Guess what i couldn't complete it because IE kept saying i had unfilled fields when this wasn't the case so i had to go to a pc to submit my order.

Taken from the mac forums
So Google released a handy tool that notifies you when you have Gmail, without having to login manually, its called Gmail Notifer. I use a Mac, so for us Apple users, we were out of luck. Not only that but gmail doesn't fully support the mac browser so there are many things you can't do. IE select all messages, star messages.

With a mac you run into annoying sitiuations like this time and time again. With pcs its never an issue. Macs main marketing revolves around spyware and popups being eliminated when this isn't an issue for a properly configured PC. The mac browser has a huge lag too compared to windows IE. And i've used many macs several of which where supposedly high end having fast processors and over 1GB of ram. Guess what the lag was still there. On top of that many times specific devices such as wireless mice don't have mac drivers so certain functions such as scrolling don't work.

In response to browsing the internet, the reason why IE is so slow and has so many problems on a Mac is that IE is made by microsoft. The problem lies with their programming, not with the mac itself. If you use the Apple designed browser, Safari, you will have increased speed and reliability.

I too have noticed similar problems and have since just stopped trying to make IE work (i dont think microsoft spends any time updating their product, whereas Safari always works great!)

 

[onetoothleft]

Not really. I don't have any formating errors with my browser. Think of all the web servers out there that are running unix. Mac is kind of like a mix of unix and linux i guess you could say. I think that years ago that macs got a bad rap and I personally didn;t like them bak then. But now I think its the best thing since sliced bread. i have not had a single problem with my laptop.

Using my mac has been wonderful in comparison with PC. It is very reliable and everything looks so much better (have you seen the new iMacs?). They definately have that industrial design edge over the PC world.

One issue that I hope that they will be able to overcome is that the IBM powerPC chips (G3, G4, G5) are not as cheap to produce as the Intel chips. So PC's have the advantage in the CPU.

 

[egpndoc]

Sorry to ask such a stupid question, but can anyone tell me the differences between a Mac and a PC. Ive used a mac a couple of times, and it seems confusing to me (dont laugh at me). I guess Im just used to PCs. Mac PC

 

[mochafreak]

I'm going to bypass the mac vs. microsoft war...and begin the tablet pc vs. laptop war.

I have a Toshiba M200 tablet...I love it...but Bill Gates is Satan.

 

[amartins02]

First off. Its true. You can't compare IE on a mac to IE on a pc. IE on a mac is literally microsoft saying "ok, we will play fair here is a copy of IE for mac. It took us a whole day to reprogram it. Here you go." IE just isn't good on a mac. But using Camino, which is a faster version of Firefox, I have never had any formatting issues at all with webpages. Now, to comment on tablets. I had a portege 3500 which I sold to get my iBook. It was an interesting feature to be able to write on the screen and take notes. But honestly after a while I just couldn't take it anymore. The damn bettery lasted like 2.5 hours and unless you have a really good screen its hard to see it from an angle. also sometimes when I was taking notes it would actually take longer to erase and rewrite. I don't know, just seemed like it was fancy paper. I liked the feature that you could take notes and record a lecture at te same time. While replaying the lecture it would highlight what I wrote at the time which was ok. But iBook kind of has that too. Takes notes in MS Word and you can record lectures at the same time. Not trying to make this a one sided comparison and being subjective towards Apple. I hav been in the PC sector professionally for5 years and always thought macs weren't that great until i tried it. Like I said, best thing I ever used.

 

[mochafreak]

Yeah, I'm not sure I would've liked the portege 3500's from what I've read about them. Tablets have been improving quite a bit. The battery life in the M200 is 4hrs without really tweaking anything too much. Some have batteries that last around 8hrs. The viewing angles of the screens are much improved. Motion has a screen that you can use in direct sunlight. The M200 viewing angle sucks, but it doesn't bother me. I love being able to download lecture slides and mark them up and being able to type the lecture and then switch to pen to draw a rxn mechanism or whatever. You can have all your notes, tests, and everything in one place for several courses. Of course, you can also surf the web when you get bored...much better than doodling IMO. 🙂

 

[IcemanDDS]

Sorry to ask such a stupid question, but can anyone tell me the differences between a Mac and a PC. Ive used a mac a couple of times, and it seems confusing to me (dont laugh at me). I guess Im just used to PCs. Mac PC

Mac user after seeing available software, compared to PC software.

 

[786mine]

to answer the main question of this thread. unlv requires you to buy an a laptop through them. you don't get to keep it.

regaring this mac/ms crap. they are both companies out there to make money off of you.

 

[amartins02]

Its not so much that there is a limit to software its just that apps work so you don't need like 20 versions of the same thing. There is lots of software look at versiontacker.com and macupdate.com

 

[lunguv]

Ouch, I'm using Mac right now , I hope this doesnt mean I cant get a woman to marry me , I love Macs, I'm trying to figure out if Temple has a preference, unfortunately, they probably want us to have Microsoft cpu's, oh well there's always LINUX

Microsoft does not manufacture CPU's. 😉

 

[rocknightmare]

i wish dell would make tablets.

so what are hte companies that make tablets??

Gateway? Toshiba? and Acer?

 

[amartins02]

Yea Averatec makes them too. But its a budget tablet. Toshiba just came out with a new one with a good price point but been there done that.

 

[mochafreak]

The ones that come to mind are: Gateway, Toshiba, Acer, Motion, Compaq, Electrovaya, and Samsung

 

[wessto]

The ones that come to mind are: Gateway, Toshiba, Acer, Motion, Compaq, Electrovaya, and Samsung

Don't forget fujitsu. They have some of the best tablets around these days in convertable and slate form factors. I would love to pick up a 4010D for dental school next fall and bypass the stock dell issue. I have nothing against dell, I just want to try something new for a change.

 

[USUaggie]

I love macs, but I get really annoyed when I want to right click something! How! Also, with safari and camino, can someone tell me how to open up another window so I can multitask (chill on sdn while studying)? My attempts to figure it out have thus far been thwarted.

 

[mochafreak]

Don't forget fujitsu. They have some of the best tablets around these days in convertable and slate form factors. I would love to pick up a 4010D for dental school next fall and bypass the stock dell issue. I have nothing against dell, I just want to try something new for a change.

Yup...there's at least a couple others as well. Anyone wanting to research tablets would want to go to Tabletpcbuzz.com. Excellent site. 👍

 

[wammmy]

I love macs, but I get really annoyed when I want to right click something! How! Also, with safari and camino, can someone tell me how to open up another window so I can multitask (chill on sdn while studying)? My attempts to figure it out have thus far been thwarted.

It depends on the version and the OS but it is either (command+N) or (command+shift+N). As far as the right click, just click and hold the button down, or you can hold ctrl while clicking. Hope this helps.

 

[USUaggie]

Hey thanks. I've been learning the mac because everyone I know that knows a lot about computers use macs, so I get the impression it is better in some way that I'll probably never fully understand. Also, in the campus computer labs there's usually less of a wait to get on a mac then a pc.