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Computers again!
Thank you all very much for all your comments yesterday - I'm sorry I've not replied to more of them (I might get to some of them at the weekend).
As a general point - you're all utterly predictable and pedantic:-) BASIC as a programming language of choice was meant to be a throwaway line, not generate tens of comments! And yes, yes, I fully accept it was never a language of choice.
I'm almost certainly going to buy a Mac - I'm looking at the 15" Powerbook (http://store.apple.com/Apple/WebObjects/uk_Ind.woa/91009/wo/M51VXW0MuYIu3qXQuGT1DD51QHh/1.0.11.1.0.6.23.1.1.1.1.0.0.1.0) - this is the education store link (enter 'College of Law' and 'London' if it takes you to an entrance screen rather than PowerBook details). I'm still technically a student till my NUS card expires - presumably at the end of August though it doesn't have an expiry date. I guess I might get away with using my ISIC which is valid until the end of December, but I don't think I want to wait that long/chance it.
If I buy from the education store it'll cost me £1 269.00 and I should be able to let the company reclaim the VAT (the ex VAT price is £1 080.00). It has 512MB RAM - upgrading that to 1GB is £91.99. A DVDR/CDRW is another £91.99. An AirPort Express Base station is £82.85 - I'm guessing I'll need something like that eventually though wireless networking isn't all that important when you're living somewhere small enough to run the cables around. An extra battery is another £82.25. Office 2004 is another £109. And now we're getting into silly amounts of extra money, so which extras I should buy now and what I can leave for a while longer? this page lists the software - is there anything here I'm going to need?
As a general point - you're all utterly predictable and pedantic:-) BASIC as a programming language of choice was meant to be a throwaway line, not generate tens of comments! And yes, yes, I fully accept it was never a language of choice.
I'm almost certainly going to buy a Mac - I'm looking at the 15" Powerbook (http://store.apple.com/Apple/WebObjects/uk_Ind.woa/91009/wo/M51VXW0MuYIu3qXQuGT1DD51QHh/1.0.11.1.0.6.23.1.1.1.1.0.0.1.0) - this is the education store link (enter 'College of Law' and 'London' if it takes you to an entrance screen rather than PowerBook details). I'm still technically a student till my NUS card expires - presumably at the end of August though it doesn't have an expiry date. I guess I might get away with using my ISIC which is valid until the end of December, but I don't think I want to wait that long/chance it.
If I buy from the education store it'll cost me £1 269.00 and I should be able to let the company reclaim the VAT (the ex VAT price is £1 080.00). It has 512MB RAM - upgrading that to 1GB is £91.99. A DVDR/CDRW is another £91.99. An AirPort Express Base station is £82.85 - I'm guessing I'll need something like that eventually though wireless networking isn't all that important when you're living somewhere small enough to run the cables around. An extra battery is another £82.25. Office 2004 is another £109. And now we're getting into silly amounts of extra money, so which extras I should buy now and what I can leave for a while longer? this page lists the software - is there anything here I'm going to need?