ikermalli

Hello,

I finally worked out a deal with my parents to let me get a laptop for $600 or less. So my grandpa wants to pay some of it and my dad doesn't mind, but my mom said she wants reasons. So I told her I wanted to take it for vacation to do school work. She said no, she said vacation is for family time (pfft... yeahh sure). Then she also said she didn't want me taking it to school because she thinks it will get stolen (note: I live in a really safe part of town). So does anyone have any reason for a high school student to get a laptop with noting the restrictions I just got?

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Vizy

You don't need a lappy now. You have a desktop right? Do all your schoolwork on that. You should wait till college and get a nice laptop. I really don't know much about you, but that is what i would do.

ukulele_ninja

I agree with Vizy, wait till college when your really going to want one.

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ikermalli

Once I get one I know she will let me take it on vacation and stuff (we go away a lot) and I am going to give my computer to my sister because she keeps on having problems and it costs like $300+ a year just to keep it working and out of the year about 10-12 weeks it isn't working or with us.

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ikermalli

Oh and also waiting until college is a LONG time, I am 14 college is when i'm 18 4 years = too long

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ikermalli

I was looking at this:
http://configure.dell.com/dellstore/...C=N1510CV_F_1E
Any good? I need to run MS Word, Mozilla firefox (4 - 6 tabs), limewire or iTunes and IM sometimes (WLM)

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hackapelite

Well, I got a laptop for high school (here in Australia it's caled college, is "college" something like university over in the US?). It's great, because

1. Most people (I at least) can type a lot faster than they can handwrite, meaning that taking down notes & writing up your work will be a lot more efficient.

2. I can have all my stuff on the lappy, no need for excess amounts of paper (which I tend to lose, anyways - having a laptop makes organizing stuff so much easier for me).

3. Possibilty for internet access & other tools that make your work a lot easier (our school computers, for example, have massive amounts of restrictions on what programs we can and can't use, which I like having a lappy, and also you get to use the internet outside of the computer labs if you need it).

4. You can take it with you anywhere you like - I take my laptop to the library pretty much every day so that I can do my work in quiet somewhere where there is no lack of resources (and also, because our library offers free wireless internet )

5. It consumes less power. I use my computer a lot and laptops by nature, designed to be energy-efficient, tend to give your electricity bill a positive change. That may be something your parents may want to consider.

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ikermalli

Yeah, hackapelite, there is Elementary (kindergarten - grade 8) then there is high school (grade 9 - 12) so I guess like college for you then there is college (you get your degree in college) and there is university which has an undergrad program and some other stuff, I dont know too much about it, i am only going to college not university so no worries for me AND you hit the bullseye! I totally forgot, our electricity bill was like 300+ dollars more than it was before because my sister and I got some more RAM for our computers (and I was playing gears of war 2 alot) so that would definitely be a strong point, and I can hardly read my writing so the note taking is awesome! If I could find out how to give you +1 or something for rep I would do that!

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gamerman4

In the US college and university are often interchangeable terms. A college is for something specific (college of arts, college of science, etc..) A university has multiple colleges on one campus. I go to UALR we have 6 different colleges on campus.
We have a College of...
-Education
-Business
-Engineering and Information Technology
-Arts, Humanities, & Social Sciences
-Professional Studies
-Science & Mathematics
map: http://www.ualr.edu/www/features/map...ctive_map.html

High School here in the US is the end of secondary education as a student. Colleges and Universities (and Trade Schools) are considered "Higher/Further Education"


Anyways, there really isn't much of a reason to need a laptop for high school. I only just got my own laptop as a Freshman in College. (My first laptop was sold so I could get my Q6600, i didn't need the lappy anyways)

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ikermalli

Haha, mind editing the post and giving me some reasons? Haha, just joking, I didn't know that, thanks for the info

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