Computer decision U of D - need feedback

whldch
Sat, 11 Jul 2009 17:19:06 +0000

We’ve now come back from 3 different colleges for all 3 kids and when this question is raised to students and IT people on campus it is pretty unanimous that laptops are the way to go. You can and should consider keyboard, mouse combos for the students comfort. Some majors specifically tell their students that their software will not support Macs 100% so be forewarned.

Your kids need to be forewarned about viruses. They are lax about updating their software, and file sharing. Udel is one of many campuses where the kids have gotten busted and the school has forwarded letters to the student from the Recording Industry lawyer creeps that their ip address has been identified as sharing copyrighted music files. A recent verdict against a student (non Udel), was for well over $1M. Some colleges have successfully refused to give names of students identified by their assigned IP addresses. As of this date udel is not one of those.