Actually the better choice right now is the netbooks for classroom notes etc.
They are light very portable and not a huge footprint.
I was in Target the other day and they had a closeout on a Linux ASUS
netbook for 212.00.
Those truly are the portable choice right now. Download your stuff
to a external and then use it on a desktop or a 17" notebook.
Stewart
At 08:52 AM 3/31/2009, you wrote:
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
Rev. Stewart A. Marshall
mailto:[email protected]
Prince of Peace www.princeofpeaceozark.org
Ozark, AL SL 82
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