Posts by skot

And by the way, they are all Professional Editions--Windows and Office 2000/XP Pro and successors, FrontPage, Visual Studio (6/.NET), BackOffice (I think this has been discontinued by MS)

It depends on the licensing agreement between the university and Microsoft. My university (Kent State Univ.) has an agreement of $10 per cd to cover licensing and the license tracking. Each student can only purchase one copy per year per...

Same here Icefluxx, I would like to have my laptop for a good 3 years and be able to upgrade the motherboard. I've also been planning on building a pc too, then I started thinking that i would really like to have a good desktop...

Well checkin it out from the library isnt the same as just copying it illegally. As a student you are agreeing to the student license which allows you to use it for your own personal use and can make a copy of it. Although I could just...

I get microsoft products through my university for $10/cd. So I got Windows XP for $10, Office XP for $20, and some products can be checked out of the library, so i got Visual Studio .NET for free

I was just looking at that too, I don't think it is.

I don't have one (yet ) , but if i remember correctly I think the battery life was 2hrs, for the 8886/7 im not sure if that was at 100% when on the battery or not. If not then I would guess you could get 2.5 hours at 50% power for just...

You can always ask.

This just makes the choice harder and harder,lol.

Also just wondering, if they would release a new heat sink, motherboard, etc., would they sell them separately? I'd guess they would since that would be the purpose of upgrading..