Aqua-Soft ForumsI need some advice! I am starting my majors in Multimedia and Web design this fall and the school wants me to “lease” a laptop for $500 per semester and then I can buy the laptop when I graduate for $200, but the kicker is they remove all the software when I buy it (Adobe CS, Macromedia Studio MX, etc.). I have a laptop that’s about the same if not better than the one they want me to have as far as specs are concerned.
What I am getting at is I can buy everything (office 2003, Adobe CS, Macromedia Studio MX, Quark, 3d Studio Max, and any others I may need) for less than what it would cost to lease the laptop for 3 years and I would own all that software (to me seems better than owning, by then, a out of date laptop)
I guess looking at the pros and cons I would lay it out like this…
Pros:
Leasing: I may get a new laptop at the beginning of every year. If it breaks or dies I will get a new one faster than I could go out and buy a new one. I would get to aquafy another laptop
Software: I would only have one laptop to deal with so no data transfer. I would own the best software in the world. Now is my only chance to get those programs for dirt cheap.
Cons:
Leasing: I would have to juggle the data on 2 laptops. The $3000 laptop I bought last year would hardly get any use. I may have to turn it in at the end of every year and then have to set it back up at the beginning of every year.
Software: I would have to pay for them up front and out of pocket (it sounds bad, but all my schooling is out of pocket anyway). I may need to upgrade at some point with Adobe having bought out Macromedia.
Any thoughts on my predicament?
As always, thanks in advance! 
P.S. I hope this is the correct place to post this! :slant: