NUS/NTU notebook deals for 2007/08
Which notebook is for me? Degree in Arts and Social Sciences/Business/Law Writing tons of essay is your forte, which is why you shouldn't burden yourself with heavy portables that take up loads of bag space. The ultraportables like the ThinkPad X61 and Toshiba Portege R500 fit your needs perfectly. With its low-power processor, built-in optical drive and exceptionally slim and light body, the Toshiba R500 will look classy in your bag. However, if you need more processing oomph for graphics editing and presentations, you'll have to sacrifice weight and the built-in DVD drive for the ThinkPad X61. Degree in Science Barring the occasional cross-faculty module, science students are not expected to run around gathering polls, conducting interviews, etc., which those in the soft sciences are expected to do. Hence, they can afford the luxury of thin-and-light notebooks with larger screens at cheaper prices. The full-powered processor also helps when computational programs such as MatLab are required. Degree in Design and Environment/Engineering Drawing on pen and paper is just so 1990s. Using a tablet PC, you can sketch directly on a laptop and save a few trees in the process. But if touchscreen doesn't appeal to you, then the discrete graphics cards in mainstream laptops like the 15-inch MacBook Pro and Fujitsu LifeBook E8410 will make your AutoCad experience so much smoother. Degree in Computing Power, power and more power. With 3D animation being such a hot industry right now, more than a few modules will likely need superior graphics performance in the 17-inch MacBook Pro. No problem if your course requires you to code in Windows, as the machine can be dual-booted with the Microsoft platform. Oh, and it doesn't hurt that you can also do some serious fragging after exams as well.
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