What's a good laptop for a Georgia Tech student?

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Ponthus Py

I'll be going to Georgia Tech in the fall to major in aerospace engineering and I'm looking for a laptop in the price range of up to about $800-$850, and I'm wondering what is a good, reliable, preferably light laptop. I leaning towards either the Sony Vaio, Samsung Series 7, or the Samsung Series 5. I don't plan on doing any gaming on the laptop.

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I would recommend you to buy a laptop once you come to Tech. As you would get a student discount of about 100-150$ . That might increase your budget and help you get a better one.

One recommendation - try to buy a 13" or 15" one as the 17" laptop is difficult to carry around in the classes. You can buy a Macbook pro as well, otherwise anything would do just well.

http://www.sco.gatech.edu/req_hw.shtml

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Navigator

Iam an international student interested to study in USA esp in Ny regions. Iam a student of physics. Iam interested to join aeronautical engineering. So can anybody here give me some ideas which university to join. I need to enroll in a cheap university which can also offer scholarship to some or greater extent.

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Some of the aeronautical engineering programs in New York state are at:

Cornell University
Renseselaer Polytechnic
University at Buffalo, State University of New York
Syracuse University
Clarkson University

All have scholarship programs for undergraduates, based on need and/or academic merit. But I am not sure that any of them (or any others I can think of) are really "cheap".

Costs (tuition, fees, room & board, misc.)

Cornell: $48,200 per year
http://finaid.cornell.edu/Shared/Costs.htm

Rensselaer Polytechnic: $50,102 per year (incl. laptop cost)
http://www.rpi.edu/dept/admissions/aid/costs.html

Buffalo: $21,609 per year (nonresident)
http://admissions.buffalo.edu/costs/ubcosts.php

Syracuse University: $45,280 per year
http://admissions.syr.edu/applying/expenses.cfm

Polytechnic: $20,746 per year (board not included)
http://www.poly.edu/studentaccounts/tuition/2007-2008/index.php

Clarkson University: $39,290 per year
http://www.clarkson.edu/getting_into_clarkson/aid/faq.html

Based on this admittedly limited survey, it looks like the University at Buffalo, State University of New York might be your best choice, strictly from the vantage point of getting into a good aerospace engineering program with relatively low cost.

But consider this: if you are academically strong, then even the most expensive university on the list could give you a scholarship enabling you to attend for four years and pay nothing. You would not know if that is possible until you apply for admission and financial aid.

So the real question to ask, perhaps, is not which college is cheapest, but which one can make this cheapest for you.

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