I need a laptop

[That Guy]

apple laptops are GOOD. by it as late as possible, price never go up.

to run windows on it, you just need the bootcamp software (free from apple) and a copy of windows (legit or otherwise).

you only need 1 copy of office, but it'll only work on whichever OS (apple/windows) you buy it for. Since you can boot either at any time, that shouldn't be a problem.

as for prices on software, windows in like 80-100$, office is $99-400 depending on the version (student is the $99 version)...

your school has a deal with microsoft though, so you should ask about it. at my school, we got 26CDs of MS software a year (office/visual studio, msdn, visio, windows, etc etc). You get that cause every student pays like $35 per semester to MS whether they use the stuff or not, and they pay it whether MS releases updates or not (sometimes you pay it and get nothing in return). Its a bad deal, but since you'll probably be forced to pay it anyways (in the tech fee/lab fee or whatever), might as well see what you can get.

that whole deal might only be for tech majors, i'm not sure...