But she’s not sure what type of journalism she’s going to pursue, and that will make a difference. A pre-journalism student, she has been told the school requires, or at least prefers, a Mac. Her daughter, Katie, needs a laptop before she starts college in the fall, but they’re not sure which to buy. Right in front of a Tiger Tech booth at a University of Missouri Summer Welcome fair, Lana Bailey is ready to cry.
I wasn’t going to say anything about this, but then I read this story in the Columbia Tribune about an incoming journalism student named Katie Bailey: That will save you more than $800 on the cheapest package from the bookstore, and more than $2,000 on the most expensive one.
For all the good this laptop will do you as a journalism student, you would be better off buying a cheap Windows laptop from Dell, uploading all of your documents to Google Docs and Dropbox# and your music to Amazon Cloud Drive or Google Music Beta, and downloading the free Open Office suite of software.
