Posted by: Bill in Dayton
(OT) Wife's Xmas Present - 11/28/06 07:35 AM
(I posted this here because this might wind up being related to my music business...)
My wife is in the Masters Program at Wright State University here in Dayton, OH. She will be a "Certified Nurse Specialist" once she finishes this degree...she then plans on returning to obtain the "other half" of a RN/Nursing Masters degree as a Nurse Practioner...She then intends to obtain her PhD in Nursing. Virtually ALL of her classes are now MASSIVE, DENSE research projects that somehow inter-twine towards her Masters Thesis.
I want to buy her a lap top for Christmas. She needs only to do MS Word/Power Point for her coursework. She also will need to be able to surf the net for her research. No games...no heavy video/audio demands are expected.
I'd like a pretty fast processor and a large viewable screen size (15.4") I've done some digging and it seems there are endless number of units out there that would fit her well...
Price wise, I'd like to stay in the $500-700 range...BUT, I can go as high as a grand or so if need be...
I'm curious if anyone here has reccomendations of a particular make/model?
Finally, if it makes sense, I may look at somehow integrating it into my performance setup, but that would be down the road in all likelihood.
Thanks as always for the forthcoming expertise!
Bill
[This message has been edited by Bill in Dayton (edited 11-28-2006).]
My wife is in the Masters Program at Wright State University here in Dayton, OH. She will be a "Certified Nurse Specialist" once she finishes this degree...she then plans on returning to obtain the "other half" of a RN/Nursing Masters degree as a Nurse Practioner...She then intends to obtain her PhD in Nursing. Virtually ALL of her classes are now MASSIVE, DENSE research projects that somehow inter-twine towards her Masters Thesis.
I want to buy her a lap top for Christmas. She needs only to do MS Word/Power Point for her coursework. She also will need to be able to surf the net for her research. No games...no heavy video/audio demands are expected.
I'd like a pretty fast processor and a large viewable screen size (15.4") I've done some digging and it seems there are endless number of units out there that would fit her well...
Price wise, I'd like to stay in the $500-700 range...BUT, I can go as high as a grand or so if need be...
I'm curious if anyone here has reccomendations of a particular make/model?
Finally, if it makes sense, I may look at somehow integrating it into my performance setup, but that would be down the road in all likelihood.
Thanks as always for the forthcoming expertise!
Bill
[This message has been edited by Bill in Dayton (edited 11-28-2006).]