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Get the workstation. And budget for an extra screen for his dorm

The heat dissapation is a good thing. And he can carry the laptop, it will not kill him. My first laptop was over 8 pounds (Toshiba 1200 80C86 with harddrive).

My heaviest was 12 pounds (work supplied 286 clamshell). What a piece of junk! We were given an external CD drive and you had to play games with the RAM loading to run Windows 1.0 to make it work...
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