Like Mike said, primarily what you need is the ability to save and view the professor's lectures which are created in Powerpoint on Windows machines, but should open fine on your MS office for Mac. Your problem however from what I can tell would be getting the files from the PC at the school, onto your laptop. You mentioned that you have a ZIP drive, which is great, that's how 99% of students get files from the PC's at the school onto their personal machines (a few of us use USB memory drives instead), however, the problem I forsee you running into is that I believe that your Zip disk will be formatted for a mac, whereas to be written to and read at the school, it will need to be formatted for a PC. I honestly don't know if there is a formatting difference for USB memory drives or not, but that might be a good option if you're wanting to avoid spending the dough on a whole new system. Other than that problem, don't expect to get any help from anyone if anything goes wrong with your Mac (I know I know, macs are great and wonderful, nothing ever goes wrong with them) but if it did, no one on the island knows anything about them to help you fix it. So the way I see it, what it boils down to is if you like your mac, don't want to buy a whole new system, and can find a way to get the files from the PC's at the school onto your mac, you'll be fine keeping it. Other computer recommendations are to bring however many print cartridges for your printer you think you might need b/c they're about $80+ US here, if they have the one for your printer that is. Also zip disks which if you plan on using, are 2-3 times as expensive as in the states. Same for printer paper, especially photo paper.
Posted on Oct 6, 2002, 5:41 PM from IP address 216.152.164.79
