thats a good point. Let your kid buy themselves something so they value it
enough not to close a lid on a pen.

I bought my own IBM laptop and never closed the lid on a pen because I knew
I counldn't afford to replace it!

On Tue, May 12, 2009 at 9:27 AM, Charles Jones <
charles.jones@ciscolearning.org> wrote:

>  AppleCare doesn't replace broken LCDs (know from experience). And this
> often happens with students, usually from having a pen laying on the
> keyboard and closing the lid....*crunch*  :-)
>
> -Charles
>
>
> Eric Cope wrote:
>
> 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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