<p>More likely the University is simply “endorsing” the advantages of recieving financial benefit from allowing private companies like Apple, Barnes & Noble, PNC bank and that “student care package” outfit to have an enhanced presence on campus. </p>
<p>Unless your child is in some computing intensive course of study (which he she and you would probably know) you probably don’t need as advanced a computer as they are likely to want. But then again, they will use if for four years, carry it back and forth to home and school and while there at the library, so if you can, might as get the best you can. By the spring and certainly next fall, it will already be behind the curve, but maybe less so if you opt for a more advanced one now.</p>