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ZeratulsAvenger · 06-17-2007, 09:04 PM

I second the opinion of external harddrives. I have a 100GB HD in my laptop, same as all my freshman class, and many people survived just fine (myself) while others (roommate) found extra space essential--200+ GB's of an external harddrive ended up being used. I'd get a moderately large internal, but expect to expand if you are of the more media-driven personality.

Also, for a laptop that is being used for normal college tasks I don't really think 2gigs of memory is all that helpful. I have run programs like AutoCAD and SolidEdge, which I would consider intense applications (both CPU and memory consuming) but 1GB worked just fine for me. Maybe using Vista is another story, but with XP I think you could safely start at 1gig.

06-17-2007, 09:04 PM	#6
ZeratulsAvenger Member (10 bit) Join Date: Jun 2003 Location: Alaska Posts: 903	I second the opinion of external harddrives. I have a 100GB HD in my laptop, same as all my freshman class, and many people survived just fine (myself) while others (roommate) found extra space essential--200+ GB's of an external harddrive ended up being used. I'd get a moderately large internal, but expect to expand if you are of the more media-driven personality. Also, for a laptop that is being used for normal college tasks I don't really think 2gigs of memory is all that helpful. I have run programs like AutoCAD and SolidEdge, which I would consider intense applications (both CPU and memory consuming) but 1GB worked just fine for me. Maybe using Vista is another story, but with XP I think you could safely start at 1gig.