Dunno, always been a fan of Toshibas. Got one through work for school and its been great. Pretty cheap too now in the 1 Ghz range.

In general though, I'd go for the PCs not Macs. You'll get more versitility out of them and easier to connect/play/tinker with.

Depend on your specific needs at school. For the price though you can usually get more out of a PC.

Dells have been really good to a lot of friends though, so I don't mock them. Gateway too.

"If this is what you want to do, you'll do it, no matter how long it takes..........and usually the longer it takes the more fun you've had!"

I recently got this model from Best Buy, and at $1500 with a $150 rebate (so ultimately $1350), it was a stinking good deal.

Now apparently it's priced at $999, which is just insane. Unfortunately they don't seem to have any in stock anymore. But you might check your local Best Buy(s) just in case. It's an absolutely fantastic notebook: less than 1.2" thick, less than 6 lbs., 1.8Ghz P4-M, Mobility Radeon 7500 (which can run UT2003 with max detail settings smoothly!), built-in wi-fi, and it's about the closest looking thing there is to a PC PowerBook. It's also got built-in s-video out, which is totally cool. I was using ePSXe, a recent Playstation emulator, to play Wipeout XL on my 32" WEGA at hi-res!

Thanks.. I guess it's a personal choice... Apple is out, so perhaps I'll just paint the Apple logo on the front

I'll go bargainhunting now...


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