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Here are 12 reasons by Dr. Mac regarding why college students should by macs insted of PC’s.

It’s back-to-school time again. So if you’re about to send your kid off to college with a new computer, here are some reasons to make that computer a Mac:

1. Issues are the last things a kid needs at college and Macs have fewer issues with viruses, malware, and icky stuff like that.

It has also been my experience that Macs have fewer issues with almost everything else, as well. This was my daughter’s first year away at college and she required technical help from me only once.

2. Most Macs sold today have a built-in video camera and iChat software. So it’s easy to communicate by video, audio, or even plain old text chat. Of course this assumes that you have a Mac of relatively recent vintage.

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I think his right and nothing to argue with that Windows sucks and all the errors you get. On my experience I used Vista for like an hour and a half and I got like 10 errors and was extremely slow that I had to take my ipod and listen to music wile Vista responded. Needless to say it was a very good laptop. Intel core 2 duo, 2gb RAM and more. So why buy a Windows laptop for your kid if you could buy a mac? Why give them a box of problems if you could give them a box of solutions?

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Macrumors is reporting that Apple will launch this year’s Back to School promo tomorrow. You will be able to get a free 8GB iPod Touch with a qualifying mac purchase, excluding the Mac mini off course. It seems students will also have the possibility to choose an 8GB iPod Nano. Will have to wait until to see the promo officially. I hope Apple doesn’t disappoint us tomorrow. Yeah yeah I know they never do.

[Via Macrumors]

Here is the WWDC Live Broadcast Reminder don’t miss it

Apple plans to announce its 2008 back-to-school promotion as early as monday, encouraging students like me to purchase a new Mac through some of the biggest incentives in the company’s history. AppleInsider has learned.

Company senior vice president Ron Johnson talked a few weeks ago to his retail staff about the promo, while specifically saying that this year’s promo would be the biggest “EVER” for Apple.

Until now its unclear what exactly does he mean but we think there is a possibility that the company could include some of its touch-screen handhelds in the promo.

Last year’s we have seen that they have offered teachers and students up to $199 rebate when purchasing a qualifying Mac and either an iPod Video or iPod nano at the same time of the purchase.

*Remember that the last couple of years the Mac mini has never qualified on the back-to-school promo, since its a low cost Mac.*

[News and Photo Via AppleInsider]

It seems that our hopes of getting a new MacBook are about to vanish. Sources close to Intel claim that they are having delays approving the Wi-Fi chipset for the Centrino 2 platform’s mainboard and this will delay maybe until July 14th, or between two to three weeks after a projected but still unofficial late June launch window.

“This initial launch would only include Intel’s standard 802.11a/b/g wireless chipset, the purported sources claim; systems that need 802.11n would need to ship two weeks later.” Said folks at AppleInsider.

As we know already Apple uses 802.11n in all its notebooks and delay like this would also delay Apple from launching its major MacBook redesigns until late July or later.

Some one got a tip about the arrival of the 3G iPhone to the US. it seems that a large shipment of unknown products just arrived to the US Customs. Apple marked them as “electronic computers” which ImportGenius suspect is a code name for the products, as they have shipped other devices with equally vague names like “desktop computers” in the past.

“They have never before reported this product on their customs declarations,” says Ryan Petersen of ImportGenius.com.“The fact that they are importing millions of units, combined with dwindling stocks of the first generation of iPhones, clearly supports the Citi analysts predictions.” [Via iPhonealley]

Also, another shipment of the other unknown products, including “desktop computers”, were not left behind. This may indicate that we will see new MACBOOK or MACBOOK PRO’S sooner than expected.

[Via ImportGenius Blog]