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You're a student. You don't really know much about computers. You need a notebook to type papers on. You have $500. What are you going to buy?


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.


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


They do when that sweet financial aid check comes around.


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

http://store.apple.com/us/browse/campaigns/back_to_school?ai...




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