[steviemcg]

(Original post by Rakas21)
Indeed, if you pay a computer science student £10 you can probably get them to put it together for you as well reducing the cost even more as you can buy the peices.

No reason to buy a USB or external drive either, just store online and download.

The George Forman is a good idea though.

Desktop
Ipad
Phone
George Forman

thats my plan I'm a studying computer science in september and I'm going to advertise Windows 7, Microsft Office 2010 and whatever other programs needed for £10.. Good way to make money plus if you were to buy the programs on the net it would set you back £200

[Dan1909]

(Original post by steviemcg)
thats my plan I'm a studying computer science in september and I'm going to advertise Windows 7, Microsft Office 2010 and whatever other programs needed for £10.. Good way to make money plus if you were to buy the programs on the net it would set you back £200

I can't imagine you'll be doing that for long. Distributing illegal copies tends to get cracked down on very quickly.

[CJG21]

A livescribe echo. It is a super pen.

[steviemcg]

(Original post by Dan1909)
I can't imagine you'll be doing that for long. Distributing illegal copies tends to get cracked down on very quickly.

word of mouth won't be putting out fliers or anything, plus have been doing it for a good few mates that are in uni atm nothings happened. Plus what with me storing it on various USB's and CD's be very hard to prove it was me.

[Dan1909]

(Original post by steviemcg)
word of mouth won't be putting out fliers or anything, plus have been doing it for a good few mates that are in uni atm nothings happened. Plus what with me storing it on various USB's and CD's be very hard to prove it was me.

Well if you feel you can get away with it, good luck! I wouldn't want to be you if you get caught though, unlikely as it is.

[cgraham15]

Portable stomach pump, for those wild student nights.

[Badass username]

(Original post by Sir Fox)
My foil - best gadget ever! The most obvious reason: fencing But also good for winning arguments (makes you very persuasive), fighting off people who try to invade your room, it works great as a wall decoration etc.

Yay! A fellow foilist.... good day to you sir

*I get a tad too excited when i see someone else in the world does fencing haha*

[KiaraMarissa]

(Original post by Sir Fox)
My foil - best gadget ever! The most obvious reason: fencing But also good for winning arguments (makes you very persuasive), fighting off people who try to invade your room, it works great as a wall decoration etc.

At first I thought you meant aluminium foil or something, so I was very confused as to how that had any connection to fencing and winning arguments. I also thought it was peculiar that you wanted to decorate your walls with aluminium foil.
But, it all makes sense now. You meant the sword thingie from fencing! I feel so smart.

[Sir Fox]

(Original post by Badass username)
Yay! A fellow foilist.... good day to you sir

*I get a tad too excited when i see someone else in the world does fencing haha*

Yeah, same to you. Let's wield our foils and poke on sabre and epee

(Original post by KiaraMarissa)
At first I thought you meant aluminium foil or something, so I was very confused as to how that had any connection to fencing and winning arguments. I also thought it was peculiar that you wanted to decorate your walls with aluminium foil.
But, it all makes sense now. You meant the sword thingie from fencing! I feel so smart.

Sword thingie?!?! Well, in German it's 'Florett', this word is only used for the weapon and has no second meaning - in English there is that problem

[LordByron]

To be perfectly honest, you had me at Hobbes.

At college (I board!) I bought myself a plug-in room freshener, and my goodness it's made the difference... It wasn't much either... Probably about 10 pounds for a whole year.

I can't describe how nice it is to walk into my room from an often smelly coridoor, into a non-overpowering, refreshing smell.

Can't recommend enough!

(For anyone interested, it's an ambi pur one.)

[viksta1000]

(Original post by _vilaseca_)
But an ipad isnt a rip off?

iPad = £250

My first year books alone = £120 + £70 + £50 + £40 + £40 + £25 + £17 + £9 = £371

so instead, bought the iPad, found the books online and stuck the PDFs on there

[viksta1000]

(Original post by _vilaseca_)
i thought students buy the books second hand and use the library to save money

I thought that too...most of the books I was going to buy were used, but the lecturers insisted that we buy new ones to get the latest editions (obviously a money making scam) and its alot harder to borrow a book from the library when there's only 6 books between a class of 270

[Dan1909]

(Original post by _vilaseca_)
i thought students buy the books second hand and use the library to save money

Where possible they do. But it's not always possible, more so with new editions, and required texts changing. Libraries are great, but there's only so many copies they can carry of each text, and with the class sizes there often are now, they'd never be able to hold enough of each.

[laurentommo]

(Original post by HelenOn)
What was wrong with this list? Why is it being negged so much?

This thread seems to be the usual TSR thing - admit you have some nice things - blazing negs. Claim you can do it all for a fiver plus Tesco points - pos'ed.

Whatever you do don't post that if you have an Ipad, iphone, car or anything people can't stand it lol.

[miss_colourful]

This thread has made me laugh And given me a few ideas

My 'gadget' list:

- I don't really count my phone as a gadget...but my Nokia N8 is going with me And maybe my old Nokia as well.
- My laptop, hopefully I can afford a smaller one before I go as the one I have now is huge...I want a portable laptop and I've been using a laptop for so long I don't think I could easily switch back to desktops...
- iPod dock/laptop speakers, have yet to decide which I'm taking. I might just use my laptops built in speakers, it's worked so far And the dock is to charge my iPod since I never remember to do it otherwise...
- Camera, cause I realised today that I don't own one. I have an awesome camera phone, but I'm thinking a camera would be a handy gadget.
- I've been promised an iPad as a present from relatives, if they come thorough and get me one, great. A free iPad. If not I'll cave and buy an eReader of some sort...Kindle Fire maybe (if it ever comes out in the UK...)
- External hard drive or a USB with enough space for all my pictures I don't wanna lose.

This is a weird list for me, especially since I don't count half of these as gadgets. A lot of these seem like requirements for uni. But I'm not the kind of person to buy useless things that I'll never really use...so this is my 'gadgets' list.

[muffingg]

(Original post by ad99797)
how much money do you have :0

Long Live Student Finance England!

[muffingg]

A beanbag

[math1234]

E-pen


This was posted from The Student Room's iPhone/iPad App

[darbyj]

In all fairness guys, this is a list of 'Top 10 gadgets for university' - surely if someone feels that a MacBook is a top 10 suggestion it is valid, even if you don't agree? And let's face it; there is a difference between recommending a laptop (which could be Linux, Windows, Mac or Chrome OS for example) and a MacBook (not saying it's a good difference, just that it is there).

If someone went onto a thread and randomly shouted 'I HAVE A MACBOOK PRO, iPAD AND DR. DRE BEATS, ANYONE WHO DOESN'T IS A PLEB', then I agree that they should be negative repped to next Christmas. But you can't blame someone for offering their opinion, when their opinion has been asked for by the OP.

And with regards to the cost-effectiveness of such gadgets, I agree that Dr. Dre Beats are overpriced, but if someone wants to put £300 towards them that's their decision. Perhaps they decided not to eat for a month to achieve that (or worked), doesn't necessarily mean they are loaded.

[Carbon12]

An Sandwich toaster for getting the perfect egg and bacon sandwich.