notebook college
tablet vs notebook for college?
I'm looking at HP notebooks but I'm open to other suggestions as well.
Tablet would be great for taking notes since handwritten notes would work better with diagrams, but notebooks are less expensive and more powerful.
I don't game a lot, and I'm willing to forsake the bigger screen.
If I'm getting a notebook, I'll also be getting 1 to 2 GB of RAM
Any college students willing to shed light on this issue? If it helps I'm planning on going to UT Austin, taking the premed route.
There are two schools of thought when it comes to buying a new computer. Buy more to have more later, or buy the bare minimum.
When it comes to a portable computer for a college student, I typically recommend buying the bare minimum. College is hard on a notebook across the board, and usually by the end of tertiary education it's battered and beaten, ready for retirement. Acting as a primary computer, it's spend a lot of it's life plugged in, killing the battery, the haul from home to class and everywhere in between takes it's toll on the physical structure, the list could go on forever.
Knowing that a college bound portable is unlikely to survive more than a few years, a more prudent decision is often to buy exactly what you need and can afford, stowing the money aside for other expenses. At the bare minimum, the money saved will come in handy when/if repairs are needed, or provide a great nest egg for a replacement a few years down the road. Heavy use laptops have a fairly finite lifespan, it's uncommon for them to see more than a few years of use.
A tablet PC may seem like a wonderful investment for a student, but there are some real pitfalls as well. For starters, there is often a much higher price tag associated. But more importantly, effectively using a tablet pc requires a real change in workflow. While I am limited to my own observations on the matter, most people who own a tablet computer very rarely use the tablet functionality, opting instead to use it as a normal (over priced) laptop.
My advice would be to buy a laptop, well within your budget that is powerful enough for what you need it to do today.
Two gigabytes of RAM is an excellent choice, while you may not utilize it all now, in the long run, additional RAM is a great way to extend the life of an ailing system.
I would also recommend talking to your school or computer retailer about educational discounts. Many people purchase computers from a big box retailer when they could order online (with an Ed. Discount) and save hundreds of dollars. Also check with the campus bookstore, you can usually get Student editions of Microsoft Office for less than the cost of bundling it with a new machine.
Hope this helps.
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