Bought the school laptop, now it's time to get flamed

[Akkernight]

Elysia, no... What I meant was that it doesn't know anything about being expensive compared to Faroe Islands, jeez D: Watch more movies or something xP they always use that way of speaking there, if I remember correctly

[cyberfish]

It teaches C++ at the second year, so I'm pretty positive that it doesn't lack power plugs xP

Are you sure they don't have computer labs?

I've never taken a programming class where students use their own computers (some don't have one).

And by tablet I meant, tablet PC! I could never get used to external tablets.

[cyberfish]

And I agree the laptop is very expensive...

According to this currency converter thing, that's ~$935 USD.

You can get something like this
Newegg.com - ASUS N50 Series N50Vn-X5A NoteBook Intel Core 2 Duo P8600(2.40GHz) 15.4" Wide XGA 4GB Memory 320GB HDD 7200rpm DVD Super Multi NVIDIA GeForce 9650M GT - Laptops / Notebooks

For a few dollars more, in the US.

I am in Taiwan now and computers are even cheaper here.

[Akkernight]

I took the chance I had If I wanted to buy it in Faroe Islands it'd cost about 936 USD :O messin', it'd be more around $1200 - $1500 USD

[MK27]

I took the chance I had If I wanted to buy it in Faroe Islands it'd cost about 936 USD :O messin', it'd be more around $1200 - $1500 USD

I guess it is too late, Akkernight, but I'd have brought my desktop with me and gotten one of those little 8.9" things, one that you can load a real OS onto. You know you are gonna have to learn linux, right ?

Plus then you could still skate, which a skateboard + a mini laptop would still weight less than this. And you already know -- the chix love it You could be doing rail slides on bannisters by the time you graduate. IMO it is an uncommonly popular sport amongst programmers.

[zacs7]

I still don't think you can beat pen and paper. All of my lecture notes are online, and I print them all before each lecture. Which works great for study also... speaking of which, have an exam soon!

[cyberfish]

Your nearest tree is crying .

I just read them on my laptop. I can write (annotate) directly on top of them (the PDFs), too, with my tablet PC, if I wanted to.

Had to print out 40 pages of notes once for an open-book test... they really should allow laptops for open-book tests. Just disable wifi in the building or something. But I guess that gives an unfair advantage to programmers .

[Neo1]

And I agree the laptop is very expensive...

According to this currency converter thing, that's ~$935 USD.

You can get something like this
Newegg.com - ASUS N50 Series N50Vn-X5A NoteBook Intel Core 2 Duo P8600(2.40GHz) 15.4" Wide XGA 4GB Memory 320GB HDD 7200rpm DVD Super Multi NVIDIA GeForce 9650M GT - Laptops / Notebooks

For a few dollars more, in the US.

I am in Taiwan now and computers are even cheaper here.

The US and Scandinavia are _very_ different, regarding prices on electronics! (And almost everything else as well, that has little difference to this topic though )

[Akkernight]

I still don't think you can beat pen and paper. All of my lecture notes are online, and I print them all before each lecture. Which works great for study also... speaking of which, have an exam soon!

who the heck is pen and paper? :P