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When I was an entering freshman last year, our school required every freshman to purchase the same laptops, but we could only do it through the school. All 500 students were issued the laptop (in my sig) through our school with a fee tacked onto our first tuition payment for $3,000. Some of it is the cost of the warranty, and software, but I was really quite dissapointed.
I have yet to do anything that I think really required a "workstation" graphics card (costly), and I would have rather just purchased a Mac and used Windows for the few required software programs and done the rest in OS X. I don't like the system really. I suppose for support, it is much easier to only have to know and support 4 laptops, but I would gladly ditch their service if I could just choose my own computer.
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