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I need a retina MBP and iPad for college.

I'm pretty sure apple is a fad at this point. There is such a thing as being too popular for your own good. They crossed the threshold awhile ago.
 
I agree on PDFs. Ipad is pretty good and makes them look damn sharp. Although most of the people I see are looking at facebook in class. There's going to be the lazy/hipster/ipad/facebook stereotype coming soon IMO.

They probably want it to look at facebook in class.
 
I just enrolled at Mason and for the first time ever their business school is requiring a laptop.
It only needs to run Office. Which I can probably do with a 250 dollar model.
 
I wish they'd make a macbook air with a touch screen, and then you could close it inverted to have the keyboard on the back and screen on front (becoming a tablet).
 
AznAnarchy99 said:
Called me old fashioned but I can't stand reading PDF scans of articles or books. I need physical pages and text.
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I know a lot of people like that: I call them paper wasters.

Also, how do you keep track of your notes on the sheet if its all in binders and boxes? I like the ability to meta-analyse notes.
 
DixyCrat said:
I know a lot of people like that: I call them paper wasters.

Also, how do you keep track of your notes on the sheet if its all in binders and boxes? I like the ability to meta-analyse notes.
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Notes are different. I have to type them otherwise I cant read my writing a few weeks down the road.
 
DixyCrat said:
I know a lot of people like that: I call them paper wasters.

Also, how do you keep track of your notes on the sheet if its all in binders and boxes? I like the ability to meta-analyse notes.
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People learn in different ways. I don't think any such method can be applied across the board. What worked for me (just listening intently in class, not taking notes or reading the book during lecture) might not work at all for someone else.

Though I don't think "needing" a MBP and iPad is really best bang for the buck...Then again, if you're looking at $75k in loans, what's another $2k or $3k over 4 years?
 
People learn in different ways.
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Your greater point, though, "people learn differently" is 100% right.

I don't think any such method can be applied across the board. What worked for me (just listening intently in class, not taking notes or reading the book during lecture) might not work at all for someone else.
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that's how I did it at the undergrad/masters level; but when you do Ph.D. for the advancement of theory then you take notes, not to remember facts but to remind you of theoretical arguments and link ideas in a novel way.


Then again, if you're looking at $75k in loans, what's another $2k or $3k over 4 years?
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Again, great point.

Notes are different. I have to type them otherwise I cant read my writing a few weeks down the road.
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Same here; i take them on the PDF instead of worrying about dealing with the database myself.
 
I agree on Ph.D. or other post master level education. And perhaps some is age. I doubt I could remember as well as I used to without notes. Perhaps from not doing it every day for years on end when I was still in college and out of practice, or just from brain getting mushy.

If I were returning for a Ph.D., I would suspect my approach would be different than just sit and listen 🙂

And perhaps the subject matter makes a difference. My MS is in accounting, which is probably easier to listen and think about than say mathematics or engineering which may require more "hands-on" notation.
 
OverVolt said:
I'm pretty sure apple is a fad at this point. There is such a thing as being too popular for your own good. They crossed the threshold awhile ago.
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if they went down market and sold netbooks u'd be right

as it is, how many of you own a mbp retina?
 
AznAnarchy99 said:
Called me old fashioned but I can't stand reading PDF scans of articles or books. I need physical pages and text.
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He's obviously not talking about scans (which the PDF format was not designed for). PDF was meant for vector-rendering, which takes full advantage of the additional pixel density of a "retina" display. Raster images with fixed pixels / dimensions do not.
 
I would have loved to have had an iPad in university. I was just taking notes and writing essays. Pair it with a bluetooth keyboard and what more do you need. Thin, light, goes all day.

I did rock the pen and paper thing for my first couple of years. I eventually caved and bought an iBook G4. That thing was pretty liberating. Didn't have to go home or find a library computer to work on papers. When I did broadcast school after university, you had to have a Macbook. Most TV stations edit with FCP. Both these laptops were base models.

Retina MBP is ridiculously expensive and the next best thing to useless IMO. I hate how the regular pros don't ship with discrete graphics anymore. Even my iBook has a Radeon 9550.
 
I didn't even know you could buy those
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DixyCrat said:
I know a lot of people like that: I call them paper wasters.

Also, how do you keep track of your notes on the sheet if its all in binders and boxes? I like the ability to meta-analyse notes.
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..... I've always felt writing the notes by hand was more effective. Earth to jackass, I like being able to highlight stuff or quickly flip between pages and reading a text book does that better than reading on a tablet.
 
Idk what classes you all were in, but writing notes for some classes is fucking essential if the textbook is extremely lacking and the teacher doesn't give notes. I can't get out of class and remember every fucking thing the teacher wrote or everything we went over. I come to do the problems and I am like, "Ahh I forgot that one thing... What is it that he did in class? Oh yeah. There is it. Awesome."

I do wish a lot of the times that the teachers had notes printed out though so I could just watch. I'm very into the sitting and absorbing, but my memory isn't good enough to totally get rid of notes. I like sitting in class and just watching the lecture, but I almost always regret it later because I have NOTHING but my very shitty memory to reference.

Oh, and laptop for college.... I would get a MBP with retina if I could afford it as a freshmen. I'd get that, some external storage (or maybe online storage?) and be set for at least 4 years. (Get that apple warranty) iPad would likely be useless at that point.

EDIT: What deeko said above is true... I didn't see an entitlement in his post at all.
 
Deeko said:
Are you reading a different post? He has no sense of entitlement. He didn't say need. All he did was say what he was thinking about getting and ask for people's opinions on different models. What could you possibly find wrong with that?
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Yeah, I was thinking the same thing. OP must have got into his parent's medical marijuana.

-KeithP
 
Mr. Lennon said:
My generation has such a false sense of entitlement...

http://forums.macrumors.com/showthread.php?t=1390734

Pen+paper got me through college.
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Almost, for me. TI-83+ was basically a requirement, and caffeine was always welcome. Still, if you like Macs, why not get a Macbook? I don't see how asking users is a bad idea, when you're about to spend $1500+ on a computer. It's sensible behavior, not entitlement.

DixyCrat said:
Also, how do you keep track of your notes on the sheet if its all in binders and boxes? I like the ability to meta-analyse notes.
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It's generally pretty easy. All the notes for each class are in one place, in chronological order, dated at the top, optionally with labels sticking out for special cases (like a lecture that goes beyond the textbook's content, or mindbending stuff, like e's crazy relationships to everything). If you have to worry about boxes, you are probably just copying the lecture down in shorthand, which seems awfully inefficient (may not apply to post-graduates).

Re: PDF: when they finally get mainstream color e-ink type displays, I'll bite. If I were to need to read PDFs all day, I'd get a proper book reader.
 
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