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LAPTOP !?...Do we need one?..What/Wheres the cheapest/best place to get one??

user12 · 2010-08-30 22:00:03

do we have to pay for the ones in college?

30-08-2010 10:00pm

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do we have to pay for the ones in college?

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#2 30-08-2010 10:00pm

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We?

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#3 30-08-2010 10:04pm

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I !!

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#4 30-08-2010 10:15pm

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this has been discussed already:

http://www.boards.ie/vbulletin/showthread.php?t=2055948284

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#5 31-08-2010 12:25am

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Not really. Laptops are apparently handy, but not at the start of the year.
I imagine it isn't a necessity though, you could do the work somewhere else if needs be. But you'll get better answers ^^

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#6 31-08-2010 12:38am

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if your living away from home, and don't want to always be waiting for a computer in the library, then YES.

Any essays or assignments you hand up are typed. Any lecturer I know refuse handwritten. even then you have all your information coming by college email, you might need to do presentations, notes will be online.
Assuming you don't need special software a cheap one is fine.

All you mostly need is office software, manly just the word processor, which usually comes with a bought computer. Otherwise you may have a computer literate freind who can "find" you what you need.

If your really stuck Open Office is free online.

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#7 31-08-2010 11:53am

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Pretty sure the reason most wont accept handwritten is because they cannot be checked for plagiarism well unless of course the lecturer fancies typing out your entire work into a word processor.

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