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If you want convienience - go to a local computer store. Stay away from the name brands - their base systems are lower price but the add-ons and upgrades are way over priced. Same story with mail-order.
If you an independant computer consultant that takes care of small to medium sized businesses - they can have a custom system built to your requirements - at the same cost as the retail - but you will get some expert advice and help setting it up.
If you decide on a laptop
Thinking that you can take it to class and take notes with it - remember thatunless you can type about 60-80 words per minute - you won't be able to keep up. If a notebook is still your choice - Get one with at least a 3 year parts and labor warranty. Also make sure you get theft insurance and LCD breakage insurance.
With the desktop -
Get a Pentium 4 - 1.5 to 2.0 Mhz with 512 DDR PC2100 Sdram
Get a 60-80 Gig 7200 ATA-100 Hard Drive
A good 32 or 64 Meg AGP Video Adapter
Look for the New Combo DVD-Reader / CDRWriters either with or without a regular CDROM
A 10/100 Network card
an Internal 56K Modem
A Good Inkjet Printer that uses low cost ink cartridge replacements - not one that replaces the entire head.
You may also want to go with a palm pilot to keep your schedule together that you can sync up at regular intervals
Don't load it up with software before you get to College - You can usually get a much better price on campus than off. Most software companies give great prices for educational software.
Hope this helps