No - I am saying, as one with decades professionally in and out of
academic environments, that the overwhelming majority of classroom
settings are inhospitable to both the physical profile and battery
life of a 17 inch laptop. A smaller laptop that will actually fit on
a standard class chair/desk, especially one in a lecture hall, is a
vastly superior choice for what you will be doing in a classroom
setting. Back at home or dorm where there is more room you can get an
even bigger monitor and an actual real keyboard with numeric keypad
for whatever the need is. The best of both worlds.
Thus, by first rationally analyzing the problem, you end up with a
better solution. In this case it could be PC or Mac depending on the
software needed.
Matthew
On Mar 30, 2009, at 10:58 PM, Chris Dunford wrote:
- I need a decent-size screen and a real keyboard.
Not in class you don't. At home you use a real keyboard and any of a
number of inexpensive flat panel monitors.
Once again, you're telling me what I need and don't need, which has
been the
basic McFan response here. The response is not, "Right, Apple
doesn't have
that at this point, I wish they did", it's "Gawd, you're just too
stupid to
know your own needs, so we'll tell you what they are." This is
pretty much
the definition of "hubris."
Why is mighty Apple unable to produce a $699 laptop (especially when
they
don't even have to pay for the OS that sits on it)?
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