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Clemson laptop question for parents of students
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Clemson laptop question for parents of students


Jun 26, 2020, 2:20 PM
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What's the deal for incoming students? Is it best to just buy the one through Clemson? I know this has been discussed before, but can't remember what the consensus was.

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MauldinT, where are you???


We did not buy through Clemson.


Jun 26, 2020, 3:10 PM

We had just bought one for Joonyer right before he got accepted, so we stuck with what we had. At the time, Clemson set it up and installed software for free even though we didn't. Also, a couple of times he had issues the tech support group fixed it for free. I'm sure times have changed and they suck every penny they can out of you now, but Joonyer earned a degree on a laptop that was a third of the price of buying through the school.

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I bought this sucker with like 4 of my paychecks from


Jun 26, 2020, 3:12 PM

working as a park ranger, shoveling ashes in the campground and renting out canoes the summer before I left for college.
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Finally.


Jun 26, 2020, 3:16 PM

An explanation for why you had to live in a tent.

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Back then, Macbooks were only $1000 bucks!***


Jun 26, 2020, 3:26 PM



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Around $1600 now, appropriately spec'ed***


Jun 26, 2020, 3:29 PM



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And that's just the 13" screen...***


Jun 26, 2020, 3:33 PM



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I had to buy a $200 HP calculator for engineering classes


Jun 26, 2020, 3:45 PM

back in the 80's. That hurt.

Today you can get a better one free in a box of cereal.

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HP 48GX was the one at Clemson in the 90's.


Jun 26, 2020, 3:50 PM

My mama's boy roommate's mom bought him all the expansion packs so he aced his chemistry tests and had a whopping 128kb extra memory for cheat notes.

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00-06 I had a GX, it died about 3 years into work (09ish)


Jun 26, 2020, 4:16 PM

and I couldn't find them anymore. Only resales for ungodly dollars.

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Ouch.


Jun 26, 2020, 4:29 PM [ in reply to I had to buy a $200 HP calculator for engineering classes ]

I just had to vote as dead people and steal ballot boxes for Political Science.

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