Best Laptop for FSU

Pasbal
Sun, 15 Apr 2012 17:22:57 +0000

I actually used that exact method right after I broke the ethernet port on my laptop, and I found the Ethernet to USB adapter I had either was faulty (which isn’t likely, since it worked at home, actually, when I went to test it) or it wasn’t working correctly with FSU’s wired internet or something. I had trouble getting it to stay connected for more than 5 minutes at a time. That could have been my laptop, or really anything though. As long as you get a working adapter though, that’s probably a good workaround. And it’s probably pretty cheap, too.

Why does your husband want to get your daughter a Mac? It seems, well, pointless, honestly, given the huge difference in price between Windows-based laptops and Macbooks. Please don’t tell me that it’s the whole “Macs don’t get viruses” thing.

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Here’s an example of what I was talking about earlier in this thread, where a decent i5 powered laptop can be had for about $450. The comparable Macbook is the 13" Macbook Pro, and it’s $1200. My girlfriend has this model HP and it’s actually surprisingly good.

You could also splurge a little and get an i7 powered Windows laptop for about $600-700. The comparable Macbooks start at like $1500 for that.