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Matthew, to get a really worthwhile PC will take some serious cash, once you toss in buying the apps. What I'd do for now is get something like FinalWriter or, perhaps, one of the competitors, and invest in a laser printer, or high-end deskjet. That way, you have something that can do papers, quite well I might add (that's what I use here), and you get a serious printer that can move when/if you switch. Keep in mind, what I would buy is at least a 486DX2/66 with 8 MB of RAM and a 340 MB or better harddrive. Video should be SVGA, and the monitor won't be too cheap. You'll need hardware of that category to keep up with where the apps are going in the PC World. CPU, memory, and disk space hungry, like a vampire! Anything less will get left behind before you leave school.