Get her an Apple (with AppleCare if you want the 2 years of extended
warranty).
Great hardware. Its light, it works with iTunes, Office or OpenOffice.
The best deal is refurbed from Apple's site.

13.3" Macbook white - $849.
http://store.apple.com/us/product/FB402LL/A?mco=MjE0NDk5Mw

Don't curse her with Windows...

Eric

On Tue, May 12, 2009 at 9:09 AM, Charles Jones <
charles.jones@ciscolearning.org> wrote:

> If you never want to have to worry about problems with it. Get a Dell
> and the "Complete Care" warranty. You can literally throw your laptop
> against a wall and they will fix it good as new. Things I have seen them
> fix, while having to support some employee laptops.
> * Replaced shattered LCD - multiple times
> * Replaced smashed keyboard from someone pounding it with their fist,
> multiple times
> * Replaced outer casing to fix drop damage
> * Replace hard disk
> * Replace motherboard
> * Replace onboard trackpad and/or mouse buttons
> * Replace broken USB ports
>
> Basically they fix anything wrong with it, and they come to wherever
> you/she is to do it. All of the damage above was from abuse, and they
> still made it just like new.
>
> -Charles
>
> Mark Phillips wrote:
> > My oldest is heading off to college in the Fall, and she needs to take
> > a laptop with her. She has used Linux all her life, but only from
> > Gnome, so Windows, Mac, Linux are all "the same" to her. She is a
> > journalist, not a computer geek. Anyway, one significant requirement
> > is for iTunes to work with her iTouch (i.e. buy music and download to
> > her iTouch). I have not been able to get Wine/iTunes to work with
> > Debian, so I have resorted to a single Windows computer just for a few
> > games and iTunes at home.
> >
> > Any recommendations (1) for laptops and (2) how to keep her using
> > Linux and not shelling out extra bucks for a Mac, or heaven forbid, a
> > Windows machine?
> >
> > Thanks!
> >
> > Mark
>
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