Thank-you everyone for your input. It has proven to be very helpful in narrowing the choices, and provided some good input to discuss with my daughter. This is what we have decided.....FWIW:
1. Dual boot Windows and Linux. She only uses iTunes once a week at most, and then to buy a song or two for her iTouch.
2. Check with other students at her school to find out how they use laptops - do they take them to class or just use them at night in the dorm. Basically, how important is portability/battery life/etc. This will steer us towards either netbooks or laptops.
3. Blue is first color choice, red is second....sorry Lisa! ;-)
4. I misspoke (mistyped?) when I said journalism. She is more interested in international relations/poly sci than journalism. Who am I to know - she is editor of the school online newspaper, editor of a local magazine for the past for years, has been writing for publications since she was very young.....Not sure if international relations/poly sci is any better than journalism for making money, but then she still has some time to rediscover computer programming/biology/chemistry/medicine...;-)
Cheers!
Mark
On Tue, May 12, 2009 at 5:23 PM, Mark Phillips
<mark@phillipsmarketing.biz> wrote:
You, Henry Ford, and I all agree that black is the best color. You are in good company. :-)
Mark
On Tue, May 12, 2009 at 3:41 PM, Bishmer Sekaran
<bishmer@sekaran.net> wrote:
> 4. Lisa picked up on a good point - my daughter is deathly afraid I
> will get her a "black box" computer for college. I mean a real black
> box - square corners, matte black. We don't agree on shoes, and we
> don't agree on the need for a fashionable laptop....so I have to
> through in that as a requirement as well....no square corners and
> matte/shiny black finish. Must have color...I suggested spray paint,
> but didn't get very far.;-)
>
Black is my favourite colour for computers and electronic equipment :(