What to buy and What not to buy.

Xeorix

Just thought Id make a list of good stuff to buy and bad stuff not to buy. Add to it

To Buy:

• External HDD
• Printer
• Desktop PC

Not To Buy:

• Acer Laptop

anewman

Not sure I see the point to this post, but I shall add anyway.

to buy:

One lordship C/O the Labour Party
Toothbrush
£10 million mansion

not to buy:
Microsoft Windows Vista
Shot guns
Machine guns
Nuclear warheads
£30k houses in scummy areas

Chall

anewman wrote: »

not to buy:
Shot guns
Machine guns
Nuclear warheads

You've got that completely wrong, why the hell is the word not there? :S You should definately be buying shot guns, machine guns and nuclea weapons, perhaps some VX gas, a few 9mm pistols, and oh yeah, eradicate the gun laws since it should be lawful to own a handgun for personal protection!

tr3mor

Chall wrote: »

You've got that completely wrong, why the hell is the word not there? :S You should definately be buying shot guns, machine guns and nuclea weapons, perhaps some VX gas, a few 9mm pistols, and oh yeah, eradicate the gun laws since it should be lawful to own a handgun for personal protection!

I do wish I had a machine gun to hand around my university a lot of the time!

^!£$&

To Buy:
Tv Licence Defintley I know they did checks at our Uni & somepeople were caught out!
Usb Pens- handy for when you need to do powerpoint presentations in class or go home for wkend and take work with you to do!

Don't Buy:
Uni canteen food- take your own snacks in with you its works out alot cheaper!

kr15snw

This is personal to me as a design student:

To buy:

Apple Laptop

Not to buy:

A PC of any kind!

Ive seen lots and lots of people on my course do work on their pc then not be able to use it in uni (all macs). They all wish they had bought a mac instead of a new pc now.

pavlovs_dog

to buy

paper when you see it on offer - you'll get through loads
ditto cheap printer ink
usb flash drive
an extra warm blanket or hot water bottle
lemsips/throat sweets/paracetamol - you will get ill at some point



not to buy

pens. you get given so many free ones at fayres etc, it is obscene

lots of plates, cutlery etc if you are in halls - you only need about half of a normal dinnerset.

Xeorix

Yeh i kinda meant stuff to buy n not to buy for students, not like for mass killing sprees lol

kittiwoz

I think the reason for the sarcastic replies is that the items on your lists were insufficiently universal. Up until the last six months of my degree I didn't have a computer. I used the 24 hour computer clusters or got an out-of-hours pass to work in my departmental building. I went from halls on campus to a tiny room. I had a busy timetable and spent most of my time in uni anyway. I prefered working there because there was less distractions. I used specialised computer programmes that were only available within the department. So there's a whole host of reasons for you why your list would have been useless to me. I couldn't afford that stuff as a student anyway.

There are a lot of students who your list would not be relevant to and the result is it is not a useful list because you can only asses its personal relevance by whether you already know you could use that stuff.

Blacksheep1979

I think a printer and computer is relevant to 99% of students (if not most of the population of the UK nowadays)

And I'm forever going on about not buying Acer products - nobody tends to listen though, they just see the spec, the price and think that its wonderful.

TeaBoy_2

BUY:
tuna
ipod
the guardian (from uni)
coloured folders
tv remote with glow in the dark buttons
floating rubber duck bath radio
hair clippers

DO NOT BUY:
student cook books
gym membership
apple laptops/pcs