Ordered all my computer stuff for college...

[Nick]

Finally just sat down and did it. Other than when I bought my car, this is the most expensive purchase I've ever made . Anyways, here's what I came up with:

Desktop_
- Just4PC 747 ATX Mid Tower Computer Case with Front USB and 425Watt Power Supply - Black
- Asus P4P800E Deluxe Socket 478 Motherboard with 8-Channel Audio, AGP 8X, USB 2.0, Firewire, 10/100/1000 Gigabit LAN, WiFi, WOL, WOR and Hyper-Threading Technology Support
- Intel® Pentium® 4 3.0 GHz / 512K Cache / 800Mhz FSB / Socket 478 / HyperThreading / Processor
- Ultra Socket 478 Copper (Nickel Polished Finish) Cooling Fan for Intel P4 Procesosrs up to 3.4GHz
- Seagate 200GB / 7200 / 8MB / ATA-100 EIDE Hard Drive
- Ultra 512MB PC3200 DDR 400MHz Memory x 2
- XFX GeForce FX 5600 XT Video Card / 128MB DDR / AGP 8X / TV Out & DVI
- Artec 16x DVD-ROM Drive / Black / OEM
- Toshiba SDR1112 DVD Burner / 4x2x12x DVD-RW / 16x10x40x CD-RW / Black
- 1.44MB Floppy Disk Drive (Black)
- Soyo Multi-Media Keyboard & Optical Mouse Combo
- LG L1715SK 17" 1280x1024 Black LCD Monitor
- Microsoft® Windows® XP Pro Edition OEM Version

Laptop_
- Systemax™ Pursuit 4210
- Intel™ Centrino® 1.6GHz
- 512MB DDR RAM
- 40GB HDD
- CD-RW+DVD-ROM Combo Drive
- 15in XGA
- Microsoft® Windows® XP Pro Edition
- 802.11b/g wireless
- 3 yr parts & labor warranty

Other Stuff_
- Belkin 500 VA / 300 Watts UPS with Software USB
- Lexmark X1150 4800 x 1200 dpi All-In-One Printer Scanner Copier
- DXG DXG-321 Digital Camera / 3.1 Megapixel / 4x Digital Zoom
- Lexar Media 256MB 32x High Speed Secure Digital

I think I got everything covered .

[Conscript]

I wouldn't pay more than $150 for all that...

[Wojtek]

haha
smieszny jestes

Some serious shopping list you got there nick
Put it to good use in college

[Conscript]

What are you primarily doing with your computers to justify such specs? I know some comp sci majors who do not need even 1/2 of that.

[jmiller]

What are you primarily doing with your computers to justify such specs? I know some comp sci majors who do not need even 1/2 of that.

Is it necessary for you to ---- on absolutely everything?

Anyways, that sounds good Nick.



When I head off to college I'll just be bringing what I have now:

a G3 iBook, a 1.2GHZ Celeron PC, and a Sun Ultra-Sparc 2.

[Nick]

I will be entering the School of Engineering at Virginia Tech. Next year when I declare my major (all first years are in general engineering) I hope to enter the dual degree program for Ocean and Aerospace Engineering.

That laptop is actually below the minimum specs. It should have a 1GB of RAM, but I'm waiting for some price drops before I upgrade.

[Nick]

When I head off to college I'll just be bringing what I have now:

a G3 iBook, a 1.2GHZ Celeron PC, and a Sun Ultra-Sparc 2.

Cool, where are you headed off to college?

Any ideas on what you want to do?

I'll also be taking my slave 30gb hdd from my current computer for the desktop and my 120gb usb hdd.

I don't know if 390 gigabytes is going to be enough though .

The entire campus and a lot of Blacksburg is wireless so I will have high speed anywhere I go on my laptop as well as high speed in my dorm on my desktop. What's going to suck is I'll get spoiled then come home for break and no wireless and I will have to use dialup.

[jmiller]

Cool, where are you headed off to college?

Any ideas on what you want to do?

I'll also be taking my slave 30gb hdd from my current computer for the desktop and my 120gb usb hdd.

I don't know if 390 gigabytes is going to be enough though .

The entire campus and a lot of Blacksburg is wireless so I will have high speed anywhere I go on my laptop as well as high speed in my dorm on my desktop. What's going to suck is I'll get spoiled then come home for break and no wireless and I will have to use dialup.

I am still undecided what college I will be attending, though I believe it will be "the College of the Cariboo", located in Kamloops BC, Canada.

As for a major, I am leaning towards political science.

[Conscript]

Political Science is a good major if you want to get into gov't work. I am majoring in Management (College of Business Administration) and also Political Science. Maybe some day I will get a cushy gov't job with a terrific pension plan.

[jmiller]

Political Science is a good major if you want to get into gov't work. I am majoring in Management (College of Business Administration) and also Political Science. Maybe some day I will get a cushy gov't job with a terrific pension plan.

I am looking to follow what seems to be a family tradition and become a social worker.

[Hobo]

I will be entering the School of Engineering at Virginia Tech. Next year when I declare my major (all first years are in general engineering) I hope to enter the dual degree program for Ocean and Aerospace Engineering.

That laptop is actually below the minimum specs. It should have a 1GB of RAM, but I'm waiting for some price drops before I upgrade.

Heh my friend bought a similar laptop for engineering at vanderbilt and ended up just playing games. Why are you getting a laptop and a desktop though?

[Nick]

The school gives a suggested budget for all costs. In that is $3000 dollars for a laptop like the one I ordered except 1GB ram instead of 512mb. Well I took the $3000 out of my savings account started looking around. I realized that I could get the laptop alone for ~$1500 as long as I stayed away from Gateway and HP and the stuff they sell through the college book store.

Anyways, I still had all this money from my savings account, which is meant to be spent on a computer. So this is what I did . Also, a couple guys I know who went through VT's engineering program just recently used smaller sub-800Mhz laptops just for mobility when writing papers and whatnot and matched that up with a hardcore desktop to get all their work done. This also saves me if one or the other ever breaks... I always have a computer.

[Abush]

I plan on buying a realy fast computer with a realy big space like 200gb but I doubt I will ever need that much whatever I plan to do. If I have the money am gona buy a server and host myself and others. BTW I plan on going to MIT and do some chemical engeenering and computer science. I also want to do a lot more like mechanical engeenering and ---- but I dont think I am smart enough to do it all. Nick unless you are rich u beter use that computer for like 10 years or more with the money you spending I would do the same.

[cbp]

I don't know why you need to buy computers for college, especially for Engineering, in a US college, where school costs like 100 times more than here in Canada ($100CND/semester + books).

I am in univ. in CS and I don't need any computers. The university has a few thousand very good computers in their labs. I like to go there and meet friends and study. And also, you are given space on the university's servers, which you can access from anywhere.
And if you really need your own space, an external hard drive should suffice.
Oh yea, I can also rent a laptop, for free.

Don't get me wrong here, but you will not use those computers for study. Study is done mostly with books. In any program you may be. With that amount of $$$ you could take chicks out. Which is more important in the long run.

[Nick]

I'm pretty lucky, but not rich. About half of all that was payed for with the money I recieved for graduation gifts and the other half was from money I've been putting into my savings account since I first got a job when I was 14.

These computers are meant to last for the next four years, so take that into account. Maybe it's different in Canada, but a computer is a crucial part of the program down here.

As far as going out, I've got a chunk of change I've saved for spending money.