Buying Guide to Tech Products for College Students

For many college bound freshmen, college will be the first trip away from home.  Not only can college be the scariest place for a 18 year old, but it can also be the best time of their life.  Times have changed since our parents have gone to college.  Instead of needing a roll of quarters to do laundry, all college bound freshmen should be armed with the few technological necessities.  The following is a list of the top five items all college bound freshmen should have handy.

Number 1- A laptop.
The overall best performance laptop for college is the HP Pavilion dv5000z Turion 64.  It includes: Windows XP Media Center Edition; 2.2GHz Turion 64 ML-40; 1,024MB DDR SDRAM PC2700 333MHz; ATI Mobility Radeon Xpress 200 128MB; Fujitsu MHV2120AT PL 120GB 4,200rpm.  Featuring an AMD processor, it starts with a highly affordable $679 weighing about 6.5 pounds.  It features just about all the entertainment features you need, but will also fit all your productivity needs.  However, like most laptops it is not built for gaming.  It features a 15.4 inch BrightView display, DVD burner, 802.11 a/b/g networking with Bluetooth, and an optional extended 12 cell battery, but with the standard 6 cell battery, it only runs for 2.4 hours.