The financial aid office may only consider, however, purchases made during the 2001-2002 academic term or during the summer of 2001. A faster processor will increase the useful life of your laptop. Windows operating system. Windows 95 or above is required, but if you are purchasing a new system, we recommend Windows 2000 Professional. A 4 gigabyte or larger hard drive.
Many laptops have larger hard drives bigger is better.
A CD-ROM drive. The speed of the CD-ROM drive is relatively unimportant. Again, more is better. This is the corner that most people cut, but we feel at least 128 MB is necessary for your laptop to have a 3-year useful life. A Wireless Network Interface Card.