Do you need a laptop in N school?

[veronica77]

Hi, everyone, I was wondering If it is necessary to have a laptop. I havea desktop at home but I was thinking about a laptop, lol don't know if the investment is worth. What advice can you tell me an other new nursing students?

Thanks'

[Music in My Heart]

This weekend saw a sale at Best Buy for a Gateway laptop with a dual core processor, 1 gig of DDR2 RAM and a 160 gig hard drive for $399.

I've been using a Compaq laptop that I got last year for $399 that's a step down from that one but is perfectly suitable for web surfing, photo editing, office applications, simple video editing, VB programming, and even some older video games like Call of Duty.

I've used laptops ranging from this $400 one through a $3500 mobile workstation and can only conclude that for most people, the cheapo ones are the way to go. I just can't see spending $600 - $1000 on a mobile computer unless you're running specialized applications which very few people do.

[beth66335, BSN, RN]

I have a used Compaq m-200 and I haven't used it for school much, but that is probably going to change. We had a Rep from Elsevier come to our school and they are introducing a new package to the nursing students that is a DVD w/ our books, that is our books! We can load it onto our laptops and carry just those to school! It also enables you to highlight and unhighlight text and cross reference your books including our Mosby's medical dictionary, I can't tell you how nice that will be when doing care plans!

[madascanbeRNtobe]

I would also look at the weight of the laptop, if you will be taking it to school with you before buying one.

Mines just under 3 kilos including the battery. I wouldnt go higher than that

[madascanbeRNtobe]

wow

i would love to have all my textbooks on my laptop only.

None of you wanna know how many times ultra-fat textbooks have fallen on someones foot, and even one time face lol