College student: Macbook Pro vs iMac

If you have the money, get a MBP, a Dell 24 inch monitor, bluetooth kb/mouse. You can then choose whether you want to use both monitors or just the 24 incher. My home desktop has dual monitors and my work system has three. I have an extra laptop on my home system that I can fire up to display realtime market info.

if you get the macbook pro you will have to lug it around campus all day, also you wont be able to walk away from it. Anyway, I find taking notes by hand is much easier.
I say get the iMac.

unlokia said:

It's a VERY personal decision, which is a balance of a whole variety of different variables, the ratios of which are vastly different, depending on your personal circumstances.

Take _into consideration_ the members opinions given herein, but I wouldn't let any one of these decisions sway you; we are all different.

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IMO this has to be the best answer so far!

mmoy said:

If you have the money, get a MBP, a Dell 24 inch monitor, bluetooth kb/mouse. You can then choose whether you want to use both monitors or just the 24 incher. My home desktop has dual monitors and my work system has three. I have an extra laptop on my home system that I can fire up to display realtime market info.

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We're not all rich...

if you wont stay at a dormitory just getthe iMac..but if you will stay at a dormitory you should get a mbp i think..but as it has been said it is a very very personal decision,you should figure out what you really need,portability and power or very very high performance and a desktop system which you even wouldnt bother move in the house...

I live in an on campus apartment. I also want to say that I live in NJ during the summer/winter breaks whereas I go to school in Louisiana. Since it is an on campus apartment (an apt treated as a dorm), we are subject to dorm rules such as not being able to keep things in the room over the summer.

Cutwolf said:

I live in an on campus apartment. I also want to say that I live in NJ during the summer/winter breaks whereas I go to school in Louisiana. Since it is an on campus apartment (an apt treated as a dorm), we are subject to dorm rules such as not being able to keep things in the room over the summer.

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then the obvious choice would be a mbp i think or a mb..think about it man,you'll go to home for summer and in one hand you can have the choice of just stuffing your mbp into your backpack,in the other hand considering of moving a giant 'desktop' computer...of course the choice is yours but this is only my opinion....
my choice will be a mbp,cuz i will be flying a lot,during the year..
i just cent decide 15inch or 17inch