Laptops in school!

[Bibin]

I use my laptop in school to notate and record homework assignements. (it's my old laptop, not my current one; this one's a Dell c600 with Windows 2000) Everything is contained in there (except for mathematics), including PDF's of my texts, so I have only 6 pounds to carry around with me, with 2 batteries for 8 hours of life. Makes it an easy day.

What do you use, if you do, and what software?

I use this little simple app I whipped up during science class I call "Skedge". It's like a simple, efficient onenote alternative.



You can download it here if you'd like: http://theantibib.sitesled.com/Skedge.exe

Note: it creates a folder relative to itself called "datums". Don't move Skedge without moving that too!

[Kurt_]

Don't use a laptop yet, but that program looks very wootsauce indeed.
Downloading and saving for the future.

[vskid]

I would use my laptop in class (its a lot harder to lose than a paper with notes on it), but everyone would probably think I'm a spoiled brat for having a yellow Thinkpad (even though its old and cost $40). Battery life is a problem, too, it only lasts about an hour, so I'd have to rebuilt the secondary battery, since its completely dead. That program looks pretty useful, I'll have to try it out.

I think the Asus Eee PC looks pretty cool, I'd love to have a laptop that small. It seems like nowadays, all laptop manufacturers can do is stuff the power of a desktop into a laptop, which I don't need. All I need is a small device that can handle everyday tasks, not a supercomputer that'll light my lap on fire. Only problem with the Eee PC is the price, its a bit too much for something that can just do everyday tasks.

[shmagoogin77]

you know the lowest grade eee pc is $260 right?

[Kurt_]

An Eee PC looks pretty cool. But it also looks like it's geared towards females. And it also won't suit any of my needs with 4 gigs of storage, and a tiny processor. I suppose it's good for a little more than what a PDA can do.

Go normal laptops!

[Harshboy]

I don't take mine to school very often because I'm only in High School but when I do its for projects or other things that involve a better computer than the crap cheap Dells that most of the school's rooms are full with. I say most because the computers in the CAD room are pretty good.

PS: My Laptop is a Black Macbook. It's 1 inch thin and weighs 5 lbs. It's a sexy beast

[bicostp]

And it also won't suit any of my needs with 4 gigs of storage, and a tiny processor. I suppose it's good for a little more than what a PDA can do.

Why do you need tons of space and processing power to take notes and access the internet? My primary work laptop has 384 MB of RAM, a P3 500, a DVD-ROM drive, and a 6 gig hard drive. It's running XP, Office 2003, Network Stumbler, Wireshark, a TFTP server, and a few other tools. It's also got a few emulators on it and I threw in a cheap WiFi card. It does everything I need it to. And yes it is a "normal laptop". (Toshiba Satellite 4500 Pro)

Or do you plan on slacking around playing games all the bloody time like half of my economics class?

[Kurt_]

Well, no, but I'd like to at least be able to have a full-sized keyboard and play videos full-speed and full resolution in-between classes.

And probably play some medium-end (is it an end?) games on the couch and the likes. I admit, it'd be mostly text and internet browsing, but it's a little too little for me.

Oh, and that screen is waaay too small for me.

[Bibin]

Word is painfully slow; it seems that office is all together. I have only two commercial products (legal) on all of my computers, and those are Microsoft Windows and Multimedia Fusion 2. Everything else is freeware ^_^.

Oh, I have a macbook black too, and it's nice, except when you get sick of it. It lacks a proper right click, a non-mushy mouse button, a proper delete key (DELETE IS NOTBACKSPACE) Non-slot CD/DVD, proper bios, and good speakers. The battery is also pitiful, especially for it's behemoth size.

My old dell c600 schoolsio actually does alright in the aforementioned qualities, it's just too old and slow. It runs some sega just fine though. It needs more RAM though, as 128MB is not enough even for 2000.

[Limewater]

Why do you need tons of space and processing power to take notes and access the internet? My primary work laptop has 384 MB of RAM, a P3 500, a DVD-ROM drive, and a 6 gig hard drive. It's running XP, Office 2003, Network Stumbler, Wireshark, a TFTP server, and a few other tools. It's also got a few emulators on it and I threw in a cheap WiFi card. It does everything I need it to. And yes it is a "normal laptop". (Toshiba Satellite 4500 Pro)

I agree with this sentiment. Up until a year and a half ago, my primary computer was a Dell Inspiron 5000 with a 500Mhz Celeron processor, 128MB of RAM, and a 5.6 gig hard drive.

It got me through all of my undergraduate education (majoring in EE), and my first semester of grad school. I finally replaced it last year, not because my classes need a bigger machine, but because my research did.

[-endorn]

I know a kid with a vista laptop who keeps making the speech synth say 'I'm so black' during bio.

[Bibin]

..."Funny"?

[Triton]

lol my 21 year old amiga can do that the laptop i use every day is my fujitsu lifebook b2610 800mhz p3 256mb ram 20gb hdd wifi touchscreen etc, its the size of a 305 subject notebook! (and only an inch and a quarter thick!)

[Ecksem Diem]

A few years ago, I used a PDA and one of those really thin, folding PDA keyboards to take my notes in class. It was quite efficient; I'm not too sure why I stopped, honestly. (I'm a writer, so maybe I'm naturally inclined to write notes through a system of indecipherable scrawlings and arrows.)

[Skyone]

lol my 21 year old amiga can do that

Mention that damn thing one more time.