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A question for all you college students out there?

post #1 of 11
10/23/04 at 3:31pm
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I am in college (have been for 6 years now, sigh... will it ever end lol ), and I was wondering if any of you other guys out there who have Area-51m's actually carry your laptops around with you all day and keep class note on them instead of good old pen and paper? I would like to do that but I am a Biology major and I am drawing a lot of diagrams and stuff and my one class all the notes are handouts (printed power point presentations) and we just sit there and watch the prof lecture for an hour and ask questions if we can think of any. What do you guys do with your laptops? Any suggestions on a good way to use my laptop in a more productive way for school?
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post #2 of 11
10/23/04 at 3:53pm
Hi Polorboy!
This all depends on what class I'm in. I'm currently finishing my MBA and like you i have allot of graphs and such so taking notes is hard. What i generally do is leave my lappy in the car and when i have some time in between classes i go to my car and relax inside with a good movie and such or i take it with me and leave it in my shoulder bag and just take it out in the library. But to be honest this thing is just to big to take with me and set it up in class. I have the older model with the 16.1 screen. For my uses ,this laptop was a mistake. My friend also uses this lappy in class(also a MBA student) and he seems to really enjoy using it in class so for him its no problem. Anyway thats my take.
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post #3 of 11
10/23/04 at 5:22pm
I will be doing my MBA in the next year or two (did my BS in Business). I wish I had a laptop at the time cause it would have made life easier (I did an MIS option with lots of programming,multimedia, and web design). Plus it would have been nice to have my gay-obese-midgets in wheelchairs porn collection handy during boring lectures.
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post #4 of 11
10/23/04 at 5:36pm
I used a combination of my DigiCam (for Diagramms) and my rig (for regular stuff).
(IT student)
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post #5 of 11
10/23/04 at 7:17pm
Freshman CS major here, generally I don't bring it around with me .. and sometimes i feel that it's more a huge 'Steal This' sign ...


It's a desktop replacement anyway you look at it, if you want full portability you needa get a iBooK or a sentia or something small like that ... but nothing beats a mean machine that you can bring and play with anywhere
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post #6 of 11
10/23/04 at 11:51pm
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Well, I am happy I got the laptop that I did, I got it for a reason. My Chem Prof just gave me a 3D Chemical modeling program and I am going to need some processing power for that. So I will bring in my laptop when we do that.

I was looking online and I found the Logitech digital pen? Anyone use that? Or the Digital Notebook? I might get that and carry that around so I can just send my note to my laptop when I get home and still have the feel of using a pen and paper. I am just trying to think of a way so I can carry less stuff around. I don't bring my laptop with me often, unless I know I am going to have to stay in the library a lot after classes.
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post #7 of 11
10/24/04 at 1:55am
I carry mine around with me ALL the time. I dont use it to take notes that often though, but i do use it during class when we are writing programs/doing circuit designs.
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post #8 of 11
10/24/04 at 2:12am
i'm a bio/pre-med major and i too use the pen and paper. there are just way too many diagrams. i would just be switching between laptop and paper anyway so why bother taking it to class. a suggestion of how to be more productive with it: take your hand written notes and type them, its help in reviewing information and you can edit your chicken scratch so a few weeks later when you have an exam you know what your notes mean.

the only place i take my laptop with me is to the library to study. one bonus of having a non-boring cough*dell*cough is that it grabs peoples attention. this one dumb extremely hot girl in my bio class asked me what kind of computer i had when she saw me studying. a conversation ensued and now i'm tutoring/partying with her.
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post #9 of 11
10/24/04 at 11:58am
pre-med = forget taking laptop with you to class. My wife (a veterinarian) did not have a laptop, thank god. I went to some of her classes in her first year of vet school where she was doing dissections. Imagine all that nasty stuff getting in the laptop. The formaldehyde would probably kill the laptop.
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post #10 of 11
10/24/04 at 3:19pm
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Originally Posted by polorboy

I was looking online and I found the Logitech digital pen? Anyone use that? Or the Digital Notebook? I might get that and carry that around so I can just send my note to my laptop when I get home and still have the feel of using a pen and paper. I am just trying to think of a way so I can carry less stuff around. I don't bring my laptop with me often, unless I know I am going to have to stay in the library a lot after classes.

Question: Can you use this pen w/o the Digital Notebook, and it still be able to transfer the data?
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post #11 of 11
10/24/04 at 3:26pm
no the paper is specially printed with a grid so that the pen can recognize strokes.
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