Lawrence David Eden wrote:
I wrote to the head of the computer sciences center at University of Maryland to get his opinion as to what machine to buy. Some of you may be interested in his reply:
"Why on earth would you want to subject her to the horrors that Windows-using students are subjected to here? . . .
Amen. I've been going to jump on this thread and dispute the "rapacious college bookstore" view. You'll probably get a better deal on everything from books to T shirts online somewhere, but unless times have changed, the college bookstore IS the place to get a computer.
I bought three of my kids at two different university bookstores, mac laptops at a WAY reduced student rate. It's been an Apple thing, providing macs to schools and selling them to college students at a bargain rate. That way they develop customers who are mac people forever, and it certainly worked for my offspring, each of whom has owned several macs since, and wouldn't dream getting a PC, even though it's cheaper. My only PC son started on a DEC10 when he was 12, worked later for an OS2 enthusiast, survived that, and now develops and troubleshoots software for PC customers of a health care software company. But even the PC son, who taught me how to use HIS pc in the 80s, steered me toward the mac. When my electric typewriter went out in 1986, he said ""Don't ever buy another typewriter. Get a Macintosh computer." I did... a Mac 512KE. That was at least ten or twelve Macs ago, and I can't imagine wrestling with Windows. Never had a virus or a worm on any Mac and I LOVE System X!
But I digress. Ask the bookstore if a student can still get a deal on a Mac laptop (or any other kind).
Worth checking out if they still do that. Also. both bookstores I used had pretty savvy computer people who did troubleshooting and service.
Good luck,
Linda Worsley _______________________________________________ Finale mailing list [email protected] http://lists.shsu.edu/mailman/listinfo/finale
