laptop for college.

drusba
Sat, 24 Feb 2007 15:30:32 +0000

You should wait to buy until after you know where you are going to college. Once that is a known, go to the college’s site and look into several things: (a) what does it recommend (minimum requirements, does the business college provide a type recommendation); (b) what software is used in the business classes – do they use things that you can get for both a MAC and PC or do they have some software that is available only for PC’s); (c) does the college have any special deals with computer makers (with many colleges, you can get below retail prices through a designated company, such as Dell, HP, other PC companies, and sometimes even Apple, for computers that come with the software that is needed for the college and get a warranty plan for which there is on site service at the college). I would guess ultimately you can choose either as long as you can put that Office software on a MAC but doing the above first will let you know what your alternatives are.