Check them out to findout what is best for you. It offers the full graphical robustness of the Windows or Mac environment. If you already have a windows machine at home there are a number of services that connect locally here in Manhattan that you may want to consider. See the Tuesday NY Times - Science Section for vendors. You are better of signing up for a local connection that an Compuserve, America On Line or Prodigy since their prices can run hundred per month.
Local vendors provide a hookup with unlimited monthly access with free software.
These type of interfaces are not especially user friendly. In many ways they may exclude people rather than include them. The machines here at Hunter can support stronger graphics systems of Window, but the costs of upgrading for the administration must be prohibitive. If you sit down to consider your total investment in education, the computer costs are rather small. We are going to encourage many of our departments to provide on-line help assistance, since many of us work throughout the day and can't make it to our professors office hours.