You're a student. You don't really know much about computers. You need a noteboo...

rbanffy · on June 18, 2012

I got my last Dell for just about that, wth Linux pre-installed.

And everything, from IDEs to LibreOffice, to R, to programming languages, to databases came for free.

Ygg2 · on June 18, 2012

From my experience, students don't usually have $500 laying around, hence all the student versions.

karlshea · on June 18, 2012

They do when that sweet financial aid check comes around.

gee_totes · on June 18, 2012

Of course, I've seen many a financial aid check go to Apple