I will be a first year pod student starting in Aug and was wondering what type of laptop you guys would recommend getting? I was going to go with either a Macbook or Macbook Pro? Suggestions? comments?
I am starting school this year as well, so I don't have any experience to offer on that end. I do, however, own a macbook pro, and highly, highly recommend it. I have always worked with macs, so I'm a bit biased, but the macbook pro is an amazing machine. I know the macbooks are nice too. With the intel chips you can run windows too(though you have buy windows and go through the installation process).
Anyone else using a mac for school?
I will be a first year pod student starting in Aug and was wondering what type of laptop you guys would recommend getting? I was going to go with either a Macbook or Macbook Pro? Suggestions? comments?
I will be a first year pod student starting in Aug and was wondering what type of laptop you guys would recommend getting? I was going to go with either a Macbook or Macbook Pro? Suggestions? comments?
Since most of life Science classes need heavy notes taking and rough diagrams and presentations,etc. I would suggest you to go for a Tablet PC. Toshiba's Tablet PC are two in one - i.e keyboard as well as touch screen. So in that way you can write all the notes on it directly with pen and can also when not using it for writing,you can switch back to normal laptop mode and use keyboard for typing. And then can make flash cards or pop quizzzes or etc from the notes using software provided by them. I use a Tablet PC and believe me once you get used to it you cant live without it. You can get a decent toshiba Tablet PC from range of $1200-$1500 . I'am saying Toshbia tablet PC because the other tablet PCs dont have any keyboard in them. They are just touch screen laptops and they are not worth it as you wont be able to type in it when you dont want to write.
Since most of life Science classes need heavy notes taking and rough diagrams and presentations,etc. I would suggest you to go for a Tablet PC. Toshiba's Tablet PC are two in one - i.e keyboard as well as touch screen. So in that way you can write all the notes on it directly with pen and can also when not using it for writing,you can switch back to normal laptop mode and use keyboard for typing. And then can make flash cards or pop quizzzes or etc from the notes using software provided by them. I use a Tablet PC and believe me once you get used to it you cant live without it. You can get a decent toshiba Tablet PC from range of $1200-$1500 . I'am saying Toshbia tablet PC because the other tablet PCs dont have any keyboard in them. They are just touch screen laptops and they are not worth it as you wont be able to type in it when you dont want to write.
I don't really get the tablet PC's. I think most people can type just as quickly as they can write, if not faster, but it sounds like you guys really like them.
Not true that only tobisha makes tablets with keyboards. Every tablet I have seen online has a keyboard. Check out the gateway ones which are cheaper than tobisha and seem to do all the same stuff.
My dad uses a gateway tablet pc. It does have keyboard but the screen is small and it doesnt have an s-video output , speaker, dvd recorder or CD-Rom, or other interfaces or high ram etc. Toshiba's tablet PC is like mother of all. Its so awesome. If you compare speficifications of toshiba tablet PC (satellite series or proeteige series) to other tablet pcs. You will see that toshiba's tablet pc is having all the features a regualr expensive laptop will have along with tablet pc feature.
The advantage of a Tablet is not that you can write in place of typing but that you can do other stuff you can't do with a keyboard easily like write in stuff next to the important parts of an image on a power point or cirlce parts for emphasis or whatever. Its like printing out the power point lecture and writing, drawing or doing whatever with it but not having to actually print it out and therefore keep really organized all in the computer. A pencil or pen does a lot a keyboard doesn't.
Don't get me wrong, I think Toshiba's are great computers. I was just giving one example of a different brand of Tablets that does well too but is cheaper. There are also many other companies that make excellent tablets with a keyboard. My original point was that Toshiba is not the only brand with a keyboard because that's what you stated. For those not knowing much about tablets, I just wanted to make it clear that there are other options.
knowing everything about computers, i feel i am authorized to give you the response you need.
i did my first year of school with a powerbook and my second with a macbook. a macbook pro is definitely overkill. it's great, but overkill. windows sucks, but everything is power point, so you can either 1) run powerpoint for mac 2) run keynote for mac 3)run windows through parallels on a mac or 4)use windows.
ranked, those options are: 2, 3, 1, 4.
tablets are OK, but you have to convert your files for One Note or whatever that program is. just learn to type and you'll be fine.
if you come to scholl, i'll give you parallels for free and you can have either vista or XP.
if you're a long time mac user, notice that the difference between a MacBook and a Macbook Pro is much less than the difference between a Powerbook and iBook was.
ps...
no matter what kind of apple you get, get APPLE CARE! it's the best thing (aside from ram) to add to your computer. whatever non-neglect problems you have can be fixed instantly for free, just by going to an apple store. for realsies.